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Dressed up for a riot : misadventures in Putin's Moscow / Michael Idov.

by Idov, Michael, 1976-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Idov, Michael, 1976-

Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.

Americans -- Russia (Federation)

9780374223151 (cloth)

Alternate title:

Misadventures in Putin's Moscow

275 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

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"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.

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