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Российская фантастика в жанре альтернативной истории как отражение массового сознания: социологические подходы
Социологические исследования. 2023. № 4. С. 106–116.
In Russia, fiction in the genre of alternative history has become popular over the past ten
years. Book series of this kind are actively published and have a significant readership. This genre is part
of ideological and utopian landscape of the Russian mass consciousness. It helps to understand imperial
historical traumas, nostalgia for the Soviet past, and a high level of anxiety about the present and future.
The theoretical part of the analysis is based on the G. Rosenfeld ideas about a close connection of this
genre with the experience of the present and about ontological pluralization of the past. The article
also includes M. Laruelle’s thesis about the ideological function of this genre and its role in ideological
mobilization. The concept of E. Shatsky’s utopia as a chronic escapism is an important element in
the analysis of this genre in Russia. Russian science fiction in the genre of alternative history mirrors
ideological and utopian unconscious, which articulates affective historical traumas of society. Alternative
history novels actively experiment with genres, and it contains elements of a political detective story,
adventure and spy novel, conspiracy theories, personal nostalgic memoirs about childhood and
adolescence, mysticism, military action movie, romance, crypto-fiction. Many authors perceive their
novels as a historical experiment, and they are concerned with problematizing the causes of the collapse
of the Soviet Union. The modern Russian wave of science fiction in the genre of alternative history is
a more painful reaction of a part of society to the deep historical faults associated with the collapse
of the USSR. The source of the analysis is the materials of interviews with the authors of works in the
genre of alternative history, readers’ reviews on thematic online platforms and the content of the works.
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