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Plots against Russia: conspiracy and fantasy after socialism

By Eliot , Borenstein

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501716355, 9781501716362, 9781501716331, 9781501735776, 1501716352, 1501716360
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2848117 bytes)
Pages
xv, 288 pages\307
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Conspiracy theories;Conspiracy theories--Russia (FRussian;Paranoia--Social aspects;Paranoia--Social

Description

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

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