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Book SynopsisPer-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University.
Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at University of Copenhagen.
Trade ReviewSuslov and Bodin have assembled a comprehensive guide to some very strange (but very fascinating) worlds. Some of them are frightening to visit, but the book’s readers could not be in better hands. * Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA *
Speculative fiction does not just imagine the future of Putin’s Russia – one of its primary tasks is to process the traumatic legacy of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Thus it is not a coincidence, or a trick of marketing, that makes speculative fiction of all sorts (utopian, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, alt-history, horror) the most widely read literature in Russia today. This volume is a much-needed guide to key authors and trends in post-Soviet utopian writing. * Yvonne H. Howell, Professor of Russian and International Studies, University of Richmond, USA *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Per-Arne Bodin and Mikhail Suslov PART 1 Chapter 1: Alternative Russian Revolution: Viacheslav Rybakov and Kir Bulychev, Go Koshino Chaper 2: Ressentiment and post-traumatic syndrome in Russian post-Soviet speculative fiction: Two trends, Maria Galina Chapter 3: Telluro-Cosmic Imperial Utopia and Contemporary Russian Art, Maria Engström Chapter 4: Lazarus on the Ark: Heterotopias in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin, Muireann Maguire PART 2 Chapter 5: Conservative science fiction in contemporary Russian literature and politics, Mikhail Suslov Chapter 6: Othering Russia: Eduard Limonov’s Retrofuturistic (Anti-) Utopia, Andrei Rogatchevski Chapter 7: Religio-political utopia by Iana Zavatskaia, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova Chapter 8: “Respectable Xenophobia:”Science Fiction, Utopia and Conspiracy, Viktor Shnirel’man PART 3 Chapter 9: Church Slavonic in Russian dystopias and utopias, Per-Arne Bodin Chapter 10: Contested Utopias: Language Ideologies in Valerii Votrin’s Logoped, Ingunn Lunde Chapter 11: ‘Londongrad’ as a Linguistic Imaginary: Russophone migrants in the UK in the work of Michael Idov and Andrei Ostalsky, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke PART 4 Chapter 12: ‘Provinces, Piety, and Promotional Putinism: Mapping Aleksandr Prokhanov’s Counter-Utopian Russia’, Edith W. Clowes Chapter 13: Parameters of Space-Time and Degrees of (Un)-Freedom: Dmitry Bykov’s ZhD, Sofya Khagi Chapter 14: The new “norma”: Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria and post-utopian science fiction, Mark Lipovetsky AFTERWARD: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past? An Afterword on Explorations in Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Kåre Johan Mjør, Sanna Turoma SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
