Plots against Russia : conspiracy and fantasy after socialism /

"A study of paranoid, conspiratorial, and extremist trends in Russia's media, film, and fiction since the collapse of the Soviet Union"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borenstein, Eliot, 1966- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2019
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvdtphfr
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Russia as an imaginary country
  • Conspiracy and paranoia
  • Ruining Russia : conspiracy, apocalypse and melodrama
  • Lost horizon : Russophobia, sovereignty and the politics of identity
  • One hundred years of Sodom : dystopian liberalism and the fear of a queer planet
  • The talking dead : articulating the zombie subject under Putin
  • Words of warcraft : manufacturing dissent in Russia and Ukraine
  • Conclusion : making Russia great again