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Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 2000−2010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov
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Issue 193: Culture & Theory. , Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Kanaev A. A., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 242–257
Политические языки ряда русских националистов имели специфичное словоупотребление «имперских» идиом в Перестройку и 1990-е гг. Воображение «империи» было связано со спецификой их взглядов на «национальное» в контексте рассмотрения актуальных политических проблем. Также, использование ими «имперских» идиом зависело от полемики с другими националистами и либерал-демократами. Данная статья посвящена анализу и сравнению использования «имперских» и связанных с ...
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Royce D. P., Russian Politics 2025 Vol. 10 No. 2 P. 241–273
This article, partly on the basis of previously-unconsidered primary sources and contemporary reporting, reexamines the conspiracy theory that developed regarding the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. It concludes, first, that the Russian government had net-negative incentive to carry out the conspiracy of which it is accused. Second, had the alleged conspiracy nevertheless been undertaken, it would ...
Added: October 16, 2025
Анна Разувалова, Антропологический форум 2015 № 27 С. 95–121
This article focuses on the film director Nikolay Burlyaev’s handling of the plot “death of a poet” presented, on the one hand, in his film Lermontov (1986) and on the other hand, in his Filmmaker’s Diary. The author traces the director’s apprehension of conspiracy schemes as a way to explain why part of the cinematographic ...
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Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence 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 the ...
Added: March 15, 2024
Sawyer P., Center for Analysis of the Radical Right 2021
On January 6th, hundreds of Stop the Steal protesters, who believe in the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” due to massive voter fraud, led an insurrection on the US Capitol building, seeking to do harm to US lawmakers and overturn the November 2020 election results. A lesser known, yet just as harmful, event ...
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Sawyer P., International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 2021 P. 1–36
As evidenced by the 2016 US presidential election, conspiracy theories, such as birtherism, the belief that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen, have become more impactful on modern-day liberal democracies. This study investigates the consequences of the conspiratorial narratives espoused by populist candidates, arguing that the creation of a narrative involving a “conspiring” establishment ...
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Klimova A. M., Chmel K., Savin N., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 6 С. 266–283
The measurement problem of sensitive questions does not have a universal solution and varies both by topic and by country. It is especially relevant during the crisis when fake information can produce dangerous social consequences. We measured the proportion of those who believe in rumors regarding COVID-19 among Russian students based on the list experiment. ...
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Baysha O., , in: Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends.: Routledge, 2021. Ch. 8 P. 167–185.
This chapter analyzes an anti-Russian conspiratorial discourse within the Ukrainian public sphere in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution of 2014. Because it ended with a change of government in Ukraine, the Maidan transformation has provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories of various sorts. However, in contrast to Russian propagandistic constructions, which presented the Maidan ...
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Routledge, 2021.
This collection of state-of-the-art essays explores conspiracy cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe, ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary manifestations.
Conspiracy theories about Freemasons, Communists and Jews, about the Chernobyl disaster, and about George Soros and the globalist elite have been particularly influential in Eastern Europe, but they have also been among the most prominent worldwide. ...
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Kolozaridi P., Яблоков И. А., Амирян Т., Логос 2017 Т. 27 № 4 С. 11–22
Where conspiracy theory comes from? It is a matter of concern for those who believe in them and those who are highly skeptical. Whether academic studies can explain the origin of this phenomenon? Which questions do the researchers of this phenomenon raise in contemporary situation and how they attempt to solve them? ...
Added: March 18, 2019
Musikhin G. I., Общественные науки и современность 2015 Т. 5 С. 102–117
This article analyses the features of political mythology as a manifestation of the political symbolization’s process. Political symbolization is defined as the phenomenon of unconventional media reaction to the political information presented in a specific form of sign systems. The research reveals the interrelation of political myths with ideology and utopia. The analysis of political ...
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