Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 2000−2010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. RUSSIA/UKRAINE
5. Conspiracy Theories, Discourse Analysis and Narratology 19
6. The News and What Is Behind It: Social Disorder and Conspirational Reading in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 35
7. Be on the Lookout! Soviet Conspiracy Drama of the 1920s and 1930s 61
8. Alternative Constructions of Reality in Maksim Kurochkin’s Play Medea Type Fighter 87
9. “Thinking Spiritually” about the Last Tsar’s Murder: Religious Discourse and Conspiracy Theories in Late Soviet Russia 99
10. Alternative Healing Practices, Conspiracy Theory, and Social Trust in Post-Soviet Russia 117
11. The Dulles Plan for Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Moral Panics in Post-Soviet Societies 131
12. Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 2000−2010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov 145
13. Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda 169
14. Odessa 2014: Alternative News and Atrocity Narratives on Russian TV 185
15. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
16. After the Final Full-Stop: Conspiracy Theories vs. Aesthetic Response in Miloš Urban’s Poslední tečka za rukopisy (The Final Full-Stop after the Manuscripts) 211
17. Trauma, Conspiracy, Memento: Representations of the Munich Crisis in Czech Cinema 229
18. POLAND
19. Treason and Conspiracy at the Polish-Ukrainian Border—Sava Chalyi/Sawa Czały 243
20. Norwid’s Critique of Conspiratorial Reason 261
21. Truth under Attack, or the Construction of Conspiratorial Discourses after the Smolensk Plane Crash 279
22. Wallenrodian Conspiracy Revisited Twice and Not Quite: Marcin Wolski’s Wallenrod and Szczepan Twardoch’s Wieczny Grunwald 301
23. (POST-)YUGOSLAVIA
24. “The Conspiracy, or the Roots of the Disintegration of European Society.” Danilo Kiš’s Fictionalization of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 313
25. Spying on the Balkan Spy. Paranoia and Conspiracy in the Works of Dušan Kovačević 333
26. Books and Leeches: Conspiracy Theory in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literatures 357
27. Contributors 377