Plots against Russia : conspiracy and fantasy after socialism /
Eliot Borenstein
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages)
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
"A study of paranoid, conspiratorial, and extremist trends in Russia's media, film, and fiction since the collapse of the Soviet Union"--
9781501716362
2018043657
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.