Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow

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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashion

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 grow to be the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his circle of relatives arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is thinking about 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 Rise up, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor at the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that may be later turned 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 one of those 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 every now and then undermined but more continuously 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 grow to be.

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