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

"Livers’s book will be among the popular studies to understand what brought Russia to the war and where to look for clues to avoid such disasters in the future."

Ilya Yablokov, University of Sheffield, Slavic Review

"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