ISBN:
9781000214697
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (311 pages)
Series Statement:
Conspiracy Theories Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.20947000000001
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Political culture-Europe, Eastern
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- 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, epistemology, and Eastern Europe -- Index.
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