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

3.0

This memoir of the former Russian GQ editor starts strong and really loses momentum 2/3 of the way through. There’s not much narrative thread aside from “I did this, then I did this, then this happened, so I did this...” etc. Names are dropped constantly with little explanation; sometimes they return and other times they don’t, so I barely understood who was who in a given moment. At the same time, Idov does offer some interesting perspectives on how Russian society, especially media, works. Wouldn’t recommend unless you have some background knowledge on Putin-era Russia.