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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 11 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Michael Idov. |
| 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Idov, Michael, 1976-
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Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Americans -- Russia (Federation)
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| Added Author |
Idov, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow |
| ISBN |
9781684412372 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684412374 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12050451 |
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