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Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian IdentityInterpreting Gorbachev’s Birthmark: Conspiratorial Visions of Russian Identity

Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity: Interpreting Gorbachev’s Birthmark:... [Chapter 7 investigates the conspiratorial literature of the writer and opinion-maker Alexander Prokhanov, and reads his works together with those of the Neo-Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin. Both authors speculate about hidden mechanisms that purportedly caused the disastrous disintegration of “the Empire.” The persistent implication of their ramified conspiracy theories is that the sense of a shared cultural destiny—conspicuously absent for postmodernist Russian authors—has been corrupted or obscured through the mysterious (and sometimes magical) forces of Russia’s enemies. The chapter demonstrates that these narratives, notwithstanding their pervasive anti-liberal resentment, regularly (and self-consciously) slip into absurdism and play, once again testifying that the most rabid patriotic stances in contemporary Russian culture often take ambiguous forms—forms that have, indeed, puzzled the public.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian IdentityInterpreting Gorbachev’s Birthmark: Conspiratorial Visions of Russian Identity

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-137-59672-7
Pages
173 –199
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59363-4_7
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Abstract

[Chapter 7 investigates the conspiratorial literature of the writer and opinion-maker Alexander Prokhanov, and reads his works together with those of the Neo-Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin. Both authors speculate about hidden mechanisms that purportedly caused the disastrous disintegration of “the Empire.” The persistent implication of their ramified conspiracy theories is that the sense of a shared cultural destiny—conspicuously absent for postmodernist Russian authors—has been corrupted or obscured through the mysterious (and sometimes magical) forces of Russia’s enemies. The chapter demonstrates that these narratives, notwithstanding their pervasive anti-liberal resentment, regularly (and self-consciously) slip into absurdism and play, once again testifying that the most rabid patriotic stances in contemporary Russian culture often take ambiguous forms—forms that have, indeed, puzzled the public.]

Published: Jun 10, 2016

Keywords: Black Hole; Publishing House; Conspiracy Theory; Secret Society; Empire Versus

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