Megan McDonogh of the Washington Post wrote that the work is "gripping and unsettling". 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". 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?" Pomerantsev only occasionally explicitly mentions the name of Vladimir Putin. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness. The author also includes stories of various figures who succeeded or faced hardships in that time period. Elder describes the work as "Part reportage and part memoir". The author recounts his experiences in Russia when he worked there in the reality television field in the 2000s. Miriam Elder of The New York Times wrote that the " prism" that Pomerantsev perceived the subject was through his previous career in reality television to imply the lack of authenticity of Russian institutions. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia is a 2014 book by Peter Pomerantsev about 21st century Russian history.
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