Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-

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.


Electronic Books.

DK510 / .P568 2019