Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Tropes and Trends
Redaktion: Astapova, Anastasiya; Scheibner, Tamás; Pintilescu, Corneliu; Colacel, Onoriu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of state-of-the-art essays explores conspiracy cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe, ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000214796
• Artikelnr.: 60146731

Autorenporträt

Anastasiya Astapova is a research fellow at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Onoriu Col¿cel is senior lecturer in English at ¿tefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania. Corneliu Pintilescu is a researcher at the George Baritiu History Institute (in Cluj-Napoca) of the Romanian Academy. Tamás Scheibner is assistant professor in literary and cultural studies at the University of Budapest (ELTE), Hungary, and senior research fellow in contemporary history at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Excellence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Eastern Europe in the Global Traffic of Conspiracy Theories
Part I. Conspiracy Culture under Socialism and its Afterlife in Eastern
Europe 1. Chernobyl Conspiracy Theories: From American Sabotage to the
Biggest Hoax of the Century 2. Stalinist Conspiracy Theories in France and
Italy: The Limits of Postwar Communist Conspiracy Culture 3. "By the Order
of their Foreign Masters": Soviet Dissidents, Anti-Western Conspiracy, and
the Deprivation of Agency Part II. "The Enemy Within": Jews and Freemasons
4. The Myth of a Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy in Hungary, Within and Beyond
the Far Right 5. An Open Secret: Freemasonry and Justice in Post-Socialist
Bulgaria 6. From Judeo-Polonia to Act 447: How and Why Did the Jewish
Conspiracy Myth Become a Central Issue in Polish Political Discourse? Part
III. After Independence: Nation-building and Victimhood Narratives 7.
Dissolution of Yugoslavia as a Conspiracy and its Haunting Returns:
Narratives of Internal and External Othering 8. The Dangerous Russian Other
in Ukrainian Conspiratorial Discourse: Media Representations of the Odessa
Tragedy 9. The Victims, the Guilty, and "Us": Notions of Victimhood in
Slovakian Conspiracy Theories Part IV. Eastern Europe Goes Global:
Conspiracy Theories and the Rise of Populism 10. Soros Conspiracy Theories
and the Rise of Populism in Post-Socialist Hungary and Romania 11.
Conspiracy Theories on Moldovan Commercial TV 12. North Macedonia Goes
Global: Pro-EU Aspiration and Anti-EU Sentiment as a Basis for EU-related
Conspiracy Theories 13. Conspiracy Theory Theory, Epistemology, and Eastern
Europe