Conspiracy culture : post-Soviet paranoia and the Russian imagination /

"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 earli...

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Autore principale: Livers, Keith A., 1963- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press [2020]
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1hx
Sommario:
  • From Vampire Capitalism to Enlightened Selfhood: Viktor Pelevin's (Anti)-Conspiracy Novels
  • The Great Anti-Russian Plot: Aleksandr Prokhanov's Conspiracy Novels of the 2000s
  • Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch and Day Watch: Russia's Secret Others
  • From the "Dulles Plan" to Pussy Riot: Conspiracy Theories in Today's Russia.