TY  - GEN
T1  - Conspiracy culture : post-Soviet paranoia and the Russian imagination
A1  - Livers, Keith A., 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1154412623
AB  - "Contemporary Russia stands apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric. Conspiracy Culture traces the roots of the phenomenon within the sphere of culture and history, examining the long arc of Russian paranoia from the present moment back to earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky's anti-nihilist novel Demons. Conspiracy Culture examines the use of conspiracy tropes by contemporary Russian authors and filmmakers including the postmodernist writer Viktor Pelevin, the conservative author and pundit Aleksandr Prokhanov, and the popular director Timur Bekmambetov. It also explores paranoia as an instrument within contemporary Russian political rhetoric, as well as in Russian pseudo-historical works. What stands out is the manner in which Russian popular paranoia is utilized to express broadly shared fears not only of a long-standing anti-Russian conspiracy undertaken by the West, but also about the destruction of the country's cultural and spiritual capital within this imagined "Russophobic" plot."--
OP  - 307
CN  - PG3096.C67 L58 2020
SN  - 9781487536121
SN  - 1487536119
SN  - 9781487536114
SN  - 1487536127
SN  - 9781487507374
SN  - 1487507372
KW  - Russian fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Conspiracies in literature.
KW  - Paranoia in literature.
KW  - Conspiracies in popular culture : Russia (Federation) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Paranoia in popular culture : Russia (Federation) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Conspiracies in popular culture : History : 20th century.
KW  - Roman russe : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Conspiration dans la littérature.
KW  - Paranoïa dans la littérature.
KW  - Conspiration dans la culture populaire : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Paranoïa dans la culture populaire : Russie : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - Conspiracies in literature
KW  - Conspiracies in popular culture
KW  - Paranoia in literature
KW  - Paranoia in popular culture
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -