Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 9 Conspiracy Theories, Discourse Analysis and Narratology 19 The News and What Is Behind It: Social Disorder and Conspirational Reading in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 35 Be on the Lookout! Soviet Conspiracy Drama of the 1920s and 1930s 61 Alternative Constructions of Reality in Maksim Kurochkin's Play Medea Type Fighter 87 "Thinking Spiritually" about the Last Tsar's Murder: Religious Discourse and Conspiracy Theories in Late Soviet Russia 99 Alternative Healing Practices, Conspiracy Theory, and Social Trust in Post-Soviet Russia 117 The Dulles Plan for Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Moral Panics in Post-Soviet Societies 131 Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 20002010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov 145 Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda 169 Odessa 2014: Alternative News and Atrocity Narratives on Russian TV 185 After the Final Full-Stop: Conspiracy Theories vs. Aesthetic Response in Milos Urban's Poslední teka za rukopisy (The Final Full-Stop after the Manuscripts) 211 Trauma, Conspiracy, Memento: Representations of the Munich Crisis in Czech Cinema 229 Treason and Conspiracy at the Polish-Ukrainian Border-Sava Chalyi/Sawa Czay 243 Norwid's Critique of Conspiratorial Reason 261 Truth under Attack, or the Construction of Conspiratorial Discourses after the Smolensk Plane Crash 279 Wallenrodian Conspiracy Revisited Twice |