Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination

"Anyone interested in Russian media, conspiracy culture, and broader Russian cultural context will find this book valuable and at times quite entertaining."

Eugenia Kuznetsova, Eurasian Geography and Economics

"Conspiracy Culture asks its readers not merely to think about conspiracy, but to reconsider the evolving contemporary Russian cultural canon in terms of the conspiratorial thinking that is part of its foundation."

Eliot Borenstein, The Russian Review, Vol. 80, No. 3

"Convincingly contextualizing Russian conspiracy narratives within wider, global tendencies, Conspiracy Culture also explores the hidden anxieties underlying American conspiratorial thought regarding Russia's influence on US politics. In doing so, Keith A. Livers avoids stereotypical characterizations of Russians as having a unique proclivity for the conspiracy mindset."

Boris Noordenbos, Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

"Conspiracy Culture broadens the focus of conspiracy studies to encompass the most prolific producers of contemporary paranoid narratives in Russia."

Henrietta Mondry, Department of Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

"Conspiracy Culture is an engaging, original, and insightful investigation into this burgeoning field of conspiracy studies, one that contributes in significant ways to our understanding of post-Soviet society as well as of current global challenges and power struggles."

Sofya Khagi, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan