"A study of paranoid, conspiratorial, and extremist trends in Russia's media, film, and fiction since the collapse of the Soviet Union"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction : Russia as an imaginary country -- Conspiracy and paranoia : the psychopathology of everyday speech -- Ruining Russia : conspiracy, apocalypse, and melodrama -- Lost horizons : Russophobia, sovereignty, and the politics of identity -- One hundred years of Sodom : dystopian liberalism and the fear of a queer planet -- The talking dead : articulating the zombified subject under Putin -- Words of warcraft : manufacturing dissent in Russia and Ukraine -- Conclusion : making Russia great again.