Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374223157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael Idov is an award-winning journalist, a screenwriter, and the author of the novel Ground Up (FSG, 2009). From 2006 to 2012, he was a contributing editor at New York magazine and won three National Magazine Awards for his writing; he edited GQRussia from 2012 to 2014. Born in 1976 in Riga, Latvia, Idov moved to the United States in 1992 and currently lives in Berlin.
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. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongsideand closely observingthe media and cultural elite of Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism liteuntil 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 cynic
About the AuthorMichael Idov is an award-winning journalist, a screenwriter, and the author of the novel Ground Up (FSG, 2009). Born in 1976 in Riga, Latvia, Idov moved to the United States in 1992 and currently lives in Berlin. . From 2006 to 2012, he was a contributing editor at New York magazine and won three National Magazine Awards for his writing; he edited GQRussia from 2012 to 2014