Books and leeches: conspiracy theory in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures / Conspiracy theories, discourse analysis and narratology / Davor Beganovic -- The news and what is behind it: social disorder and conspirational reading in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature / Jens Herlth -- Be on the lookout! Soviet conspiracy drama of the 1920s and 1930s / Valery Vyugin -- Alternative constructions of reality in Maksim Kurochkin's play Medea type fighter / Evgeniya Safargaleeva -- "Thinking spiritually" about the last tsar's murder: religious discourse and conspiracy theories in late Soviet Russia / Sergei Shtyrkov -- Alternative healing practices, conspiracy theory, and social trust in post-Soviet Russia / Konstantin Begdanov -- The Dulles plan for Russia: conspiracy theories and moral panics in post-Soviet societies / Alexander Panchenko -- Conspiracy theory and neoconservative PR strategies in the 2000-2010s: the case of Aleksandr Prokhanov / Anna Razuvalova -- Plots against Russia: conspiracy, sincerity, and propaganda / Eliot Borentein -- Odessa 2014: alternative news and atrocity narratives on Russian TV / Eva Binder and Magdalena Kaltseis -- The Czech Republic -- After the final full-stop: conspiracy theories vs. aesthetic response in Milos Urban's Posledni tecka za rukopisy (The final full-stop after the manuscripts) / Gernot Howanitz -- Trauma, conspiracy, memento: representations of the Munich crisis in Czech cinema / Frantisek A. Podhajsky -- Poland -- Treason and conspiracy at the Polish-Ukrainian border-Sava Chalyi/Sawa Czaly / Alois Woldan -- Norwid's critique of conspiratorial reason / Christian Zehnder -- Truth under attack, or the construction of conspiratorial discourses after the Smolensk plane crash / Alois Streicher -- Wallenrodian conspiracy revisited twice and not quite: Marcin Wolski's Wallenrod and Szczepan Twardock's Wieczny Grunwald / Bob Muilwijk -- (Post)Yugoslavia -- "The conspiracy, or the roots of the disintegration of European society." Danilo Kis's fictionalization of the Protocols of the elders of Zion / Dagmar Burkhart -- Spying on the Balkan spy. Paranoia and conspiracy in the works of Dusan Kovacevic / Goran Lazicic -- Books and leeches: conspiracy theory in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures / Davor Beganovic -- Contributors.
Summary:
"Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. The efficacy of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its relationship with representations of the present in Eastern European cultures and literatures." -- back cover.
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