The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
Putin’s People: A Times Book of the Year 2021 – The Story of Russia’s History and Politics
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
of two Russian figures—Vladimir Lenin and the much lesser known Vladislav Surkov, a former postmodernist theater director who’s been described as “Putin’s Rasputin” and the Kremlin’s propaganda puppet master—informs many of the troubling political and social dynamics at work in the post-truth era.