Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends

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Introduction: Eastern Europe in the global traffic of conspiracy theories
Part I Conspiracy culture under Socialism and its afterlife in Eastern Europe
	1 Chernobyl conspiracy theories: from American sabotage to the biggest hoax of the century
	2 Stalinist conspiracy theories in France and Italy: the limits of postwar Communist conspiracy culture
	3 “By the order of their foreign masters”: Soviet dissidents, anti-Western conspiracy, and the deprivation of agency
Part II “The enemy within”: Jews and Freemasons
	4 The myth of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy in Hungary, within and beyond the far right
	5 An open secret: Freemasonry and justice in post-socialist Bulgaria
	6 From Judeo-Polonia to Act 447: how and why did the Jewish conspiracy myth become a central issue in Polish political discourse?
Part III After independence: nation-building and victimhood narratives
	7 Dissolution of Yugoslavia as a conspiracy and its haunting returns: narratives of internal and external othering
	8 The dangerous Russian other in Ukrainian conspiratorial discourse: media representations of the Odessa tragedy
	9 The victims, the guilty, and “us”: notions of victimhood in Slovakian conspiracy theories
Part IV Eastern Europe goes global: conspiracy theories and the rise of populism
	10 Soros conspiracy theories and the rise of populism in post-socialist Hungary and Romania
	11 Conspiracy theories on Moldovan commercial TV
	12 North Macedonia goes global: pro-EU aspiration and anti-EU sentiment as a basis for EU-related conspiracy theories
	13 Conspiracy theory, epistemology, and Eastern Europe
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