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Idov, Michael, 1976-
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Idov, Michael, 1976-
Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Russia (Federation)
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Idov, Michael, 1976-
Idov, Michael, 1976-
Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Russia (Federation)
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Dressed up for a riot :
misadventures
in
Putin
's
Moscow
/ Michael Idov.
by
Idov, Michael, 1976-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Call #:
947.086 I21d
Subjects
Idov, Michael, 1976-
Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Russia (Federation)
ISBN:
9780374223151 (cloth)
Alternate title:
Misadventures
in
Putin
's
Moscow
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
A rootless cosmopolitan -- The new Decembrists -- The Lokh -- The one-two punch, part one -- The one-two punch, part two -- Anatomy of the protest -- My name is Matt Rushkin -- Zavtra.
Summary:
"In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside and closely observing the media and cultural elite of
Putin
's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a
Moscow
still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to
Putin
and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism Lite - until Russia's invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind. In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in
Moscow
and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become."--Jacket.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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