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The Antichrist in Post-Sovi­et Rus­sia: Trans­for­ma­tions of an Ideomyth
The book explores trans­for­ma­tions of the apoc­a­lyp­tic fig­ure of the Antichrist in var­i­ous post-Sovi­et dis­cours­es, includ­ing eccle­si­as­ti­cal and polit­i­cal writ­ings, con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries, and lit­er­ary texts. Draw­ing on the exten­sive research into diverse mate­ri­als pub­lished in the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion after the col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union, it demon­strates how an ini­tial­ly reli­gious idea has pen­e­trat­ed sec­u­lar dis­cours­es and what impli­ca­tions this entails. By apply­ing the inno­v­a­tive ana­lyt­i­cal cat­e­go­ry of ideomyth, the book suc­cess­ful­ly answers the ques­tion of how and why the fig­ure of the Antichrist is employed with­in the Russ­ian post-Sovi­et semi­os­phere, with a spe­cial focus on texts that emerged with­in nation­al­ist and reli­gious milieus.
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The post-Sovi­et pol­i­tics of Utopia: lan­guage, fic­tion and fan­ta­sy in mod­ern Rus­sia
More than 700 ‚utopi­an‘ nov­els are pub­lished in Rus­sia every year. These utopias – mean­ing here fan­ta­sy fic­tion, sci­ence fic­tion, space operas or alter­na­tive his­to­ry – do not set out mere­ly to tit­il­late; instead they express very real Russ­ian anx­i­eties: be they ter­ri­to­r­i­al right-siz­ing, loss of impe­r­i­al sta­tus or turn­ing into a ‚colony‘ of the West.
Con­trib­u­tors to this inno­v­a­tive col­lec­tion use these nar­ra­tives to re-exam­ine post-Sovi­et Russ­ian polit­i­cal cul­ture and iden­ti­ty. Inter­ro­gat­ing the inter­sec­tions of pol­i­tics, ide­olo­gies and fan­tasies, chap­ters draw togeth­er the high­brow lit­er­ary main­stream (authors such as Vladimir Sorokin), mass lit­er­a­ture for enter­tain­ment and indi­vid­u­als who bridge the gap between fic­tion writ­ers and intel­lec­tu­als or ide­ol­o­gists (Alek­san­dr Prokhanov, for exam­ple, the edi­tor-in-chief of Russia’s far-right news­pa­per Zav­tra). In the process The Post-Sovi­et Pol­i­tics of Utopia sheds cru­cial light onto a vari­ety of debates – includ­ing the rise of nation­al­ism, right-wing pop­ulism, impe­r­i­al revan­chism, the com­pli­cat­ed pres­ence of reli­gion in the pub­lic sphere, the func­tion of lan­guage – and is impor­tant read­ing for any­one inter­est­ed in the height­ened impor­tance of ideas, myths, alter­na­tive his­to­ries and con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries in Rus­sia today.
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