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Plots against Russia : Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism / Eliot Borenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501716362
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0947 23
LOC classification:
  • DK510.762 .B67 2019eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Russia as an Imaginary Country -- 1. Conspiracy and Paranoia: The Psychopathology of Everyday Speech -- 2. Ruining Russia: Conspiracy, Apocalypse, and Melodrama -- 3. Lost Horizons: Russophobia, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Identity -- 4. One Hundred Years of Sodom: Dystopian Liberalism and the Fear of a Queer Planet -- 5. The Talking Dead: Articulating the Zombified Subject under Putin -- 6. Words of Warcraft: Manufacturing Dissent in Russia and Ukraine -- Conclusion: Making Russia Great Again -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life. Plots against Russia reveals through dramatic and exciting storytelling that conspiracy and melodrama are entirely equal-opportunity in modern Russia, manifesting themselves among both pro-Putin elites and his political opposition. As Borenstein shows, this paranoid fantasy until recently characterized only the marginal and the irrelevant. Now, through its embodiment in pop culture, the expressions of a conspiratorial worldview are seen everywhere. Plots against Russia is an important contribution to the fields of Russian literary and cultural studies from one of its preeminent voices.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Russia as an Imaginary Country -- 1. Conspiracy and Paranoia: The Psychopathology of Everyday Speech -- 2. Ruining Russia: Conspiracy, Apocalypse, and Melodrama -- 3. Lost Horizons: Russophobia, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Identity -- 4. One Hundred Years of Sodom: Dystopian Liberalism and the Fear of a Queer Planet -- 5. The Talking Dead: Articulating the Zombified Subject under Putin -- 6. Words of Warcraft: Manufacturing Dissent in Russia and Ukraine -- Conclusion: Making Russia Great Again -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life. Plots against Russia reveals through dramatic and exciting storytelling that conspiracy and melodrama are entirely equal-opportunity in modern Russia, manifesting themselves among both pro-Putin elites and his political opposition. As Borenstein shows, this paranoid fantasy until recently characterized only the marginal and the irrelevant. Now, through its embodiment in pop culture, the expressions of a conspiratorial worldview are seen everywhere. Plots against Russia is an important contribution to the fields of Russian literary and cultural studies from one of its preeminent voices.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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