Peter Deutschmann (PhD), born in 1968, is full professor of Slavic literatures and cultures at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His main fields of research include Russian and Czech literature.
Jens Herlth (PhD), born in 1971, is full professor of Slavic literatures at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests include Polish intellectual history, Russian and Polish literature in the context of the history of ideas, and the relationship between literature and the social sciences.
Alois Woldan (PhD), born in 1954, is full professor of Slavic literatures at the University of Vienna, Austria. His fields of research are Polish and Ukrainian literature, comparative Slavic literature and literary life in Austrian Galicia.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
Conspiracy Theories, Discourse Analysis and Narratology 19
The News and What Is Behind It: Social Disorder and Conspirational Reading in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 35
Be on the Lookout! Soviet Conspiracy Drama of the 1920s and 1930s 61
Alternative Constructions of Reality in Maksim Kurochkin's Play Medea Type Fighter 87
"Thinking Spiritually" about the Last Tsar's Murder: Religious Discourse and Conspiracy Theories in Late Soviet Russia 99
Alternative Healing Practices, Conspiracy Theory, and Social Trust in Post-Soviet Russia 117
The Dulles Plan for Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Moral Panics in Post-Soviet Societies 131
Conspiracy Theory and Neoconservative PR Strategies in the 20002010s: The Case of Aleksandr Prokhanov 145
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda 169
Odessa 2014: Alternative News and Atrocity Narratives on Russian TV 185
After the Final Full-Stop: Conspiracy Theories vs. Aesthetic Response in Milos Urban's Poslední teka za rukopisy (The Final Full-Stop after the Manuscripts) 211
Trauma, Conspiracy, Memento: Representations of the Munich Crisis in Czech Cinema 229
Treason and Conspiracy at the Polish-Ukrainian Border—Sava Chalyi/Sawa Czay 243
Norwid's Critique of Conspiratorial Reason 261
Truth under Attack, or the Construction of Conspiratorial Discourses after the Smolensk Plane Crash 279
Wallenrodian Conspiracy Revisited Twice and Not Quite: Marcin Wolski's Wallenrod and Szczepan Twardoch's Wieczny Grunwald 301
"The Conspiracy, or the Roots of the Disintegration of European Society." Danilo Kis's Fictionalization of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 313
Spying on the Balkan Spy. Paranoia and Conspiracy in the Works of Dusan Kovaevi 333
Books and Leeches: Conspiracy Theory in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literatures 357
Contributors 377