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:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Popular culture > Russia (Federation) Political culture > Russia (Federation) Conspiracy theories > Russia (Federation) Paranoia > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) Post-communism > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) National characteristics, Russian.

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.