Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Conspiracy Theories, Discourse Analysis and Narratology -- The News and What Is Behind It: Social Disorder and Conspirational Reading in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature -- Be on the Lookout! Soviet Conspiracy Drama of the 1920s and 1930s -- Alternative Constructions of Reality in Maksim Kurochkin's Play Medea Type Fighter -- "Thinking Spiritually" about the Last Tsar's Murder: Religious Discourse and Conspiracy Theories in Late Soviet Russia -- Alternative Healing Practices, Conspiracy Theory, and Social Trust in Post-Soviet Russia -- The Dulles Plan for Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Moral Panics in Post-Soviet Societies -- Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 2000−2010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov -- Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda -- Odessa 2014: Alternative News and Atrocity Narratives on Russian TV -- 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) -- Trauma, Conspiracy, Memento: Representations of the Munich Crisis in Czech Cinema -- Treason and Conspiracy at the Polish-Ukrainian Border-Sava Chalyi/Sawa Czały -- Norwid's Critique of Conspiratorial Reason -- Truth under Attack, or the Construction of Conspiratorial Discourses after the Smolensk Plane Crash -- Wallenrodian Conspiracy Revisited Twice and Not Quite: Marcin Wolski's Wallenrod and Szczepan Twardoch's Wieczny Grunwald -- "The Conspiracy, or the Roots of the Disintegration of European Society." Danilo Kiš's Fictionalization of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- Spying on the Balkan Spy. Paranoia and Conspiracy in the Works of Dušan Kovačević -- Books and Leeches: Conspiracy Theory in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literatures -- Contributors

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.

funded by University of Salzburg, University of Fribourg/Faculty of Humanities, University of Vienna

In English.

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