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{{short description|2014 book}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
| author = [[Peter Pomerantsev]]
| image = File:Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible.jpg
| caption = First edition
| subject = Russian history
| pub_date = 2014
| publisher = [[PublicAffairs]]
| pages = 256 p.
| isbn = 9781610394567
}}
'''''Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia''''' is a 2014 book by [[Peter Pomerantsev]]. It focuses on the political developments in Russia in the early 21st century and the culture of [[Russian media]].
==Background==
Miriam Elder of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that the "[[Prism (optics)|prism]]" that Pomerantsev perceived the subject through was his previous career in [[reality television]], to imply the lack of authenticity of Russian institutions.<ref name=Elder>{{cite news |title=‘Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,’ by Peter Pomerantsev |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible-by-peter-pomerantsev.html |date=2014-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129211522/http://www.nytimes.com:80/2014/11/30/books/review/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible-by-peter-pomerantsev.html? |archive-date=2014-11-29 |url-status=live |work=[[The New York Times]] |last1=Elder |first1=Miriam |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
== Work==
The author recounts his experiences in Russia when he worked there in the reality television field in the 2000s.<ref name=WaPo>{{cite news |title=‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,’ by Peter Pomerantsev |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible-by-peter-pomerantsev/2015/02/13/1668f2ae-9c17-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html |date=2015-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216180828/http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible-by-peter-pomerantsev/2015/02/13/1668f2ae-9c17-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html |archive-date=2015-02-16 |url-status=live |work=[[The Washington Post]] |last1=McDonough |first1=Megan |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Elder describes the work as "Part reportage and part memoir".<ref name=Elder/> The author also includes stories of various figures who succeeded or faced hardships in that time period.<ref name=WaPo/>
Pomerantsev only occasionally explicitly mentions the name of [[Vladimir Putin]]. Elder argued that this strategy "can be taken as a suggestion that we focus too much on him, that he’s so big he no longer requires discussion — or that we do not and cannot ever know who he truly is, so why even bother?"<ref name=Elder/>
Tony Wood of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote that the book shows that the "roots" of the psychological order was "the tumult and delirium of the country’s post-Soviet transformations".<ref>{{cite news |title=Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev review – Putinism and the oil-boom years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-permitted-peter-pomerantsev-review-russia-oil-boom |date=2015-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324004606/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-permitted-peter-pomerantsev-review-russia-oil-boom |archive-date=2015-03-24 |url-status=live |work=[[The Guardian]] |last1=Wood |first1=Tony |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
== Reception ==
Megan McDonogh of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote that the work is "gripping and unsettling".<ref name=WaPo/>
== See also ==
* ''[[This Is Not Propaganda]]'', 2019 book by the author
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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* {{Cite journal |last1=O'Rourke |first1=P. J. |title=The Land of Magical Thinking: Inside Putin's Russia |journal=World Affairs |volume=177 |issue=6 |pages=73–79 |date=2015 |issn=0043-8200 |jstor=43555272 |df=mdy-all }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Yaffa |first1=Joshua |title=Putin's Hard Turn: Ruling Russia in Leaner Times |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=128–135 |date=2015 |issn=0015-7120 |jstor=24483672 |df=mdy-all }}
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== External links ==
* {{official website|https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/peter-pomerantsev/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible/9781610394567/}}
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