Everybody Hates Russia: On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory under Putin
Journal: Social research
Year: 2022

Everybody Hates Russia:On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory under Putin Eliot Borenstein (bio) if journalism is the first rough draft of history, academic scholarship about today's world risks becoming the equivalent of the infamous 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, rendered even more embarrassing by virtue of its publication 18 months later after two rounds of peer review. I have been studying Russian conspiracy theories for over two decades, culminating in the publication