Introduction
Political neomedievalism, the memory of the perpetrators, and mobmemory
Putin's neomedieval politics of history
Post-Soviet historians and religious activists on the medieval oprichnina
The Post-Soviet far right on establishing the new oprichnina
The oprichnina and serfdom in popular culture and public debates
Re-Stalinization in Putin's Russia
Working through the past Russian-Style : mobmemory in Vladimir Sharov's prose
Conclusion: The politics of reversed time : apocalypse as practice.