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Conspiracy Narratives in Russian Politics: from Stalin to Putin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Chaim Shinar
Chaim Shinar*
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Hazamir St. 22/23, Kiryat Ono5550722, Israel. Email: chaimshinar7@gmail.com
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Abstract

In order to silence the resistance, the Soviet Union under Stalin kept the population in permanent fear and uncertainty by recurrent purges of innocent citizens, ‘Old Bolsheviks’ and Red Army commanders, thus terrorizing the entire population. Similar conspiracy narratives are used under Putin. In order to keep his grip on power, after the Beslan massacre, Putin’s administration discourse hints at the operation of an international conspiracy of states using terrorism as an instrument to weaken Russia.

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European Review , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 648 - 660
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© Academia Europaea 2018 

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