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When information is a weapon, everyone is at war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean.

As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops and much more.

Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage, part intellectual adventure, This is Not Propaganda is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.

©2017 Peter Pomerantsev (P)2019 Audible Ltd 21st Century Modern Russia Imperialism Iran War Middle East Socialism Cyber Warfare Liberalism Soviet Union
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Peter Pomerantsev mentions being from Ukraine, but fails to populate it with Ukrainian intellectuals. He mentions Russian and Jewish prominent thinkers as a proof of multiculturalism on that territory, but ignores people who try to build ukrainian national identity there. He misses the chance to use our case of trying to understand who we are in the face of mortal danger as a possible antidote to Chinese approach.

Great to be born in the same city

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Insightful. Original Excellent Pomerantsev is always interesting and brings new original perspectives to current topics.

Magnificent

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Well written, well narrated and scary stuff. A bleak outlook but essential reading for this day and age

Insightful and thought-provoking

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This book is well written and taps into political life after post modernism deconstructed truth, meaning and community

Enlightening about the intersection between power and media

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I guess I expected a different kind of thing from this book. It seems that the entire book is about the author's struggle to find their identity. There were a couple of interesting pieces of information, but I’d rather listen to a podcast on this topic than read the whole book.

Mixed feelings

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