Conspiracy Culture

Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination

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de Keith A. Livers

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > Russia / USSR

Mots Clés

Russia, sociology

Année d'édition

2020

Editeur

University of Toronto Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 320 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4875-0737-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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 earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky’s anti-nihilist novel Demons.

Conspiracy Culture examines the use of conspiracy tropes by contemporary Russian authors and filmmakers including the postmodernist writer Viktor Pelevin, the conservative author and pundit Aleksandr Prokhanov, and the popular director Timur Bekmambetov. It also explores paranoia as an instrument within contemporary Russian political rhetoric, as well as in pseudo-historical works. What stands out is the manner in which popular paranoia is utilized to express broadly shared fears not only of a long-standing anti-Russian conspiracy undertaken by the West, but also about the destruction of the country’s cultural and spiritual capital within this imagined "Russophobic" plot.

À propos de l'auteur :
Keith A. Livers is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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