Conspiracy and Alternate History in Russia
A Nationalist Equation for Success
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5086777 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marlène Laruelle (0000-0001-8289-2695, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 565-580 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9434.2012.00669.x |
| OpenAlex | W2083178386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
In the post-Cold War period conspiracy theories have become more fashionable, both as an element for explaining international affairs and as one for rewriting history. In this latter aspect, they comprise part of a particularly broad genre, called alternate history. Each of these plural histories of Russia has its own proper focus, in terms of its periods of predilection, of its way of formulating the components of identity (religion, race, culture, state, and so on), and of designation of the enemy. However, nearly all of them use the conspirological framework and its presupposed secret manipulation to articulate the dramaturgy of the nation in logical terms. After a contextualization of the broad domain of alternate history, this article enquires into the modes of nationalist types of alternate history and its multiple conspiracies, and looks in detail at one of its "textbook cases," so-called New Chronology. The principal hypothesis defended here is that the conjunction between conspiracy theory and the rewriting of history makes up one of the main instruments for disseminating nationalist theories in today Russia, theories based on a kind of post-modern, paranoid cultural imaginary
Aesthetics · Art · Contextualization · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Nationalism · Plural · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
Why Russia Attacked
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Pandemic
Suturing the Neighborhood? Russia and the EU in Conflictual Intersubjectivity
The Politics of Pseudoscience
Putin’s Arctic Strategy
The Politics of (Historical) Love
Russian Cultural Conservatism Critiqued
‘If Grandma had Whiskers … ’
Introduction – Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas
To Whom Does History Belong
Alternative Archaeology and New Age Traditionalism in Contemporary Russia
The terrorist attacks in the Volga region, 2012–13
Conspiracy theories in Russian security thinking
Pussy Riot as agent provocateur
Embodying the spirit of the time
Seeing the Bigger Picture
Alexei Navalny and challenges in reconciling “nationalism” and “liberalism
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |