Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Russia as an imaginary country -- Conspiracy and paranoia : the psychopathology of everyday speech -- Ruining Russia : conspiracy, apocalypse, and melodrama -- Lost horizons : 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 zombified subject under Putin -- Words of warcraft : manufacturing dissent in Russia and Ukraine -- Conclusion : making Russia great again.
Summary:
"A study of paranoid, conspiratorial, and extremist trends in Russia's media, film, and fiction since the collapse of the Soviet Union"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.