A review by mey
Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow by Michael Idov

4.0

Partly a memoir, partly a witness account on the political situation in Russia in 2012-14 and partly an introduction to contemporary Russian culture (mostly TV but also a bit on literature), Dressed Up for a Riot sometimes rings of self-justification, but the author is mostly endearingly self-deprecating. His whole situation seems so far away from a non-Russian's life that the whole book feels like a surreal dream.