Index
Abramovic, Marina, 118
Adonyev, Sergei, 117
affective attachment to state, 19, 64–65, 74–76, 98, 114
Afghanistan, 45
Agamben, Giorgio, 66
AgitProp (YouTube channel), 142–43
Akopov, Eduard, 110
Akunin, Boris, The Mirror of St. Germain, 52
“The Aleph,” 172
Allen, Woody, 53
“All You Zombies,” 27
alternate history, 10–12, 59, 82, 99–100, 167; time travel and, 11. See also present-day alternative USSR
Anderson, Benedict, 63
Andrei Kapitan (username), 145
Angel’s Kiss, 133
Anna Karenina, 146
anticommunism, 87. See also Cold War; East/West conflict
apocalypse. See post-apocalyptic futures
Aptekman, Marina, 139n4
Archy13 (username), 158–59, 161–62
Armaged-dom, 125
Arsenyev, Sergei Vladimirovich, 38, 48; “Sergei Arsenyev on His Work,” 23; Student, Komsomol Girl, Athlete, 22–29, 35–36, 99
atheism, 81
Atomic Heart, 155
Aum Shinrikyo, 78
Back, 172
Banderites, 7
Bauman, Zygmunt, 4
Becker, Wolfgang, Goodbye, Lenin!, 90–95, 98, 121
Bekmambetov, Timur, 17
Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward, 53–55, 76, 134
Benigni, Robert, 173
Beumers, Birgit, 7
Beyond the Thistle, 139
Bird, Robert, 120n19
Black, Holly, 143
Boele, Otto, 7
Bogdanov, Alexander, Red Star, 161
Bolsheviks, 64
Bondareva, Olga, “The Glass Dream,” 162
books, in post-apocalyptic fiction, 128–31
Bordoni, Carlo, 4
Borges, Jorge Luis, “The Aleph,” 172
Boris Godunov, 4
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451, 128; “A Sound of Thunder,” 100
Branch Davidians, 78
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich, 57, 63, 87, 95–97, 101, 109, 149
Buckley, William F., Jr., 87
Bulgakov, Mikhail: Flight, 89; Ivan Vasilievich, 55
Burnosov, Yuri, “Moscow 22,” 53–54
Butler, Octavia E., 10
A Canticle for Leibowitz, 13–14, 127–28
capitalism: critiques of, 12, 23, 49–50, 52, 91–93, 102, 105–6, 144, 154, 162, 164; dominance of, 124, 146–47; Soviet reconstructions and, 108, 110. See also liberal democratic paradigm
Carbongrad 1999 (Russia 2077), 156–58, 165
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game, 130
Cavendish, Philip, 121
Center for Combating Extremism (Center E), 77–79
Chagall, Marc, 171
Chapaev, Vasily Ivanovich, 112
Chekmaev, Sergei, 80
Chernenko, Konstantin, 88
Chernobyl disaster, 100–102, 125, 127, 132
Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone, 13, 99–102, 121, 150
Chizhova, Elena, The China Expert, 12
Christofascist Posse Comitatus movement, 71
Citizen Nobody, 103n9
citizenship, 65, 68, 70–71, 73, 163
Citizens of the USSR, 65–85, 86n2, 150; ideology and conspiracy theories, 74–76; nostalgia and, 65–67; passports and, 69–74; as secular extremists and a cult, 76–80; shrinking of public sphere and, 80–82; styob (ironic overidentification), 82–85
The Clash of Civilizations, 133–34, 138
Colbert, Stephen, 83
The Colbert Report, 83
Cold War, 78, 91, 101, 127; end of, 87–88, 123–24, 133, 146. See also East/West conflict
colonialism, 121–22. See also imperialism
Command & Conquer franchise, 153
Complete Encyclopedia of Popadantsy to the Past, 18
conditional subjunctive, 13, 15, 105, 173–74, 176–77; counterfactual, 166–67
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 10, 20, 53
conspiracy theories, 74–76, 101, 105
corruption, 27, 45, 94, 103n9, 107, 137–39, 154, 168
cosmonauts, 28, 93, 160–61. See also space program, Soviet
COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, 7, 75n5, 173, 175
cults. See new religious movements
curatorial fandom, 61
Curry, Tim, 153
cyberpunk, 12, 149, 156, 157, 159
cynicism, 32–35, 103n9, 112, 174
Czechoslovakia, 123
The Daily Show, 83
The Dark Side of the Moon, 13, 24, 39–49, 99–108, 121–22
Day of the Oprichnik, 9, 14, 124, 133, 134, 139–42
Day Watch, 17
“The Decision,” 164
degradation, 26, 104, 126, 139
democracy. See liberal democratic paradigm
Destructology, 80
Dick, Philip K., 3n2, 59–60, 67, 122; Exegesis, 59; The Man in the High Castle, 11, 59; Radio Free Albemuth, 59; Valis, 59
difference, 138, 165, 171–72. See also pluralism
Doctor Who, 10
A Dream of a Thousand Cats, 63–65
Drugaia Rossiia coalition, 60
Dumai sam, dumai seichas (DSDS), “2045,” 143–45, 157
Dumancic, Mark, 29
Dune, 14
Dyachenko, Marina and Sergei, Armaged-dom, 125
dystopias: fantasy and, 147–48; liberalism as, 26, 162; medieval, 14, 133–34, 138–42; politics and, 146; post-apocalyptic, 125–32, 143; Soviet reconstructions, 112; Time Crasher stories, 26–28, 53–58, 104. See also anti-utopia
Eastern European countries, 123
East Germany, 91–93, 95, 98, 123
East/West conflict, 133–37, 146, 162–63
economic conditions, 4, 64, 69, 76, 123–24, 167; prosperity, 31, 63, 101–2, 143
Eisenstein, Sergei, 171
EKSMO, 162
Elin, Alexander, 8. See also “Our Nuthouse Is Voting for Putin”
Elizarov, Mikhail, The Librarian, 84
emigration, 68, 88–90, 115, 171
empire, 132–34, 137, 171–72. See also imperialism
Ender’s Game, 130
The End of History and the Last Man, 123–24
Enlightenment, 137
Eno, Brian, 118
Envy, 88
Epstein, Mikhail, 109
Ernst, Konstantin, 168
ethnogenesis, 63
Etkind, Alexander, 8
Etush, Vladimir, 111
Eurasianism, 133, 134n3, 140–41, 144
Eurasian Symphony, 133
Everything Was Forever until It Was No More, styob, 82
fairy tales, 12, 27, 48, 51–52, 93, 160
fandom and fan fiction: curatorial vs. transformative, 61; Mary Sue figure, 48; politicized, 134; Time Crashers and, 18, 20–21, 23, 25, 48, 52, 56, 61–62; USSR-2061 and, 145
fantasy: genre, 13, 20, 42, 134–35, 167; immersive, 60; nauchnaia fantastika (scientific fantasy), 20; regressive, 39–44; utopias and dystopias as, 147–48; wish-fulfillment fantasies, 13, 25, 41, 47, 52, 56, 135–36, 150
Fedorova, Lioudmila, 7
Felix (username), 158–59, 161–62
“Fifth Medal,” 162
Fight Club, 50
Fishman, Leonid, “My popali,” 26n4
Flight, 89
Flowers for Algernon, 55
Fomenko, Anatoly, 62
Foundation for Traditional Religions, 80
Foundation Pit, 120
Frei, Max, Labryinths of Echo, 62
Freud, Sigmund, 24, 25, 42, 129, 147; on the uncanny, 14–15, 27
Frolova, Lidia, 73
future, 123–65; future shock, 87; imperialism and, 132–42; past and, 8–14, 56–58; as progress, 132; radiant, 4, 99, 145–47, 155, 163; retrofuturism, 124, 144, 156, 159; Russofuturism, 157; SovPunk visions of, 12, 124, 133, 148–65; Time Crasher stories in, 53–58; Western framing of, 123–24, 146. See also dystopias; medieval futurism; optimism; pessimism; post-apocalyptic futures; utopias
Gagarin, Yuri, 28, 106, 158, 160, 169, 171
Gaidai, Leonid: Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession, 55; Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, 22n2, 111
Gaiman, Neil, Sandman, 63
The Game, 50
geopolitics, 66, 105, 107, 134, 162, 167
Germany, 87; Reichsbürger (Reich Citizens), 70–72, 74. See also East Germany
Gibbon, Dave, 6
Gibson, William, 157
The Girl from the Future, 156, 159
glasnost, 96
“The Glass Dream,” 162
Gleick, James, 19
Glukhovsky, Dmitry, Metro 2033, 9, 126, 129–32
GM Reds, 155
Goodbye, Lenin!, 90–95, 98, 121
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 16, 22, 64, 67, 96–97, 101
Gorky Park, 13
grandfather paradox, 10, 18–19, 49
Great Patriotic War. See World War II
Great White Brotherhood, 78
Greenfield, Nathan W., 167
Grix, Jonathan, 169n3
“Groundhog’s Day, or Greetings from the Man with Horns,” 172
Guzman, Yuli, 110
Hampe, Karl, 166
Hanson, Stephen, 2n1
Hanukai, Maxim, 7n4
Hard to Be a God, 14
haunted houses, 120
Hayden, Lisa, 148n8
Heaven’s Gate, 78
Hedgehog in the Fog, 170
Heinlein, Robert, “All You Zombies,” 27
Herbert, Frank, Dune, 14
Herland, 134
heroes, agency of, 18–19, 25, 37–39, 47–52, 57
historical fiction, 11, 53. See also Time Crasher stories
history. See past; Soviet nostalgia; World War II
Hitler, Adolf, 16, 23, 28; “Hitler wins” stories, 10, 11, 12, 59, 99
Hoban, Russell, Ridley Walker, 127
homophobia, 23–24, 53–54, 162, 171
horror genre, 120
Iampol’skii, Mikhail, 118n15
ideology, 4, 108, 109, 112, 121; Citizens of the USSR and, 74–76; Putinist, 167–72; in utopian fiction, 9, 12, 76, 146–47, 162–64
Idiocracy, 53
imperialism, 19, 121–22, 132–42, 165, 168, 177. See also territorial expansion; Ukraine, Russian invasion of
individualism, 39, 51, 112, 138, 165
irony, 151–52, 175. See also styob
Ivakin, Aleksei, 54n13
Ivanova, Natalia, 127
Ivan The Terrible, 16, 55; oprichnina, 14, 126, 137
Ivan Vasilievich (play), 55
Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (film), 55
Karlson on the Roof, 43
Kasparov, Garry, 60
Kataev, Valentin, Time, Forward!, 1
Kennedy, John F., 160
Keyes, Daniel, Flowers for Algernon, 55
Khabibulin, Yuri, “Mother’s Day,” 162
Khanga, Elena, 111
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 43–44, 49
Khristos, Maria Devi, 78
Khrzhanovsky, Ilya, DAU, 13, 108, 117–22
Khval’skii, Andrei, “Summer Internship,” 163
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, 22n2, 111
Kniazev, Miloslav, “Fifth Medal,” 162
Kobierecki, Michał, 168n2
Kobzon, Iosif, 111
Kornbluth, Cyril M., “The Marching Morons,” 53
Koroliuk, Mikhail, Save the USSR!, 20, 39, 48, 52
Kotelnikov, Gleb, 170
Kozlenko, Ivan, 121
Kozuliaev, Aleksei, 110
Kramereva, Nina, 169n3
Krasnov, Pyotr, Beyond the Thistle, 139
Krusanov, Pavel, The Angel’s Kiss, 133
Kukui, Il’ia, 118n14
Kukulin, Ilya, 7
Labryinths of Echo, 62
Ladies Against Women, 83
Landau, Lev, 117
Larbaleister, Justine, 143
law enforcement, 44–45, 107; extralegal (see oprichnina). See also police procedurals
Le Guin, Ursula, 147
Lenin, Vladimir, 64, 69, 76, 91, 97; mausoleum, 114; Red Cape memes and, 152; statues of, 94, 112
liberal democratic paradigm, 51, 124, 137–38; as dystopia, 26, 162. See also capitalism
The Librarian, 84
life-cycle rituals, 30
Life is Beautiful, 173
Life on Mars, 13, 39–40, 42, 45n4, 46n6
Limonov, Eduard, 60; “The USSR Is Our Ancient Rome,” 61–62
Lindgren, Astrid, 43
linear time, 6
“Liompa,” 88
Lipovetsky, Mark, 8, 52, 91, 110n13, 120n18, 127
A List of Blessings, 89
“The Little Earth,” 163
Looking Backward, 53–55, 76, 134
Lounsbery, Anne, 157n15
Lukyanenko, Sergey: Night Watch series, 17; “Popadantsy,” 18; Rough Draft, 62; “Vitya Solnyshkin and Joseph Stalin,” 16–19, 29, 39
Makanin, Vladimir, Escape Hatch, 9
The Manchurian Candidate, 78
The Man Who Couldn’t Die, 90–91, 94–98, 121, 172
“The Marching Morons,” 53
Marin, Louis, 109
Marinina, Alexandra, 108; Gorky Quest, 115–18, 120–21
Martian time slip, 3
Marxism, 76, 123–24, 142, 146, 163–64
Mary Sue figure, 48, 52, 57, 153
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, Verses on My Soviet Passport, 69–70, 72
medieval futurism, 13–14, 133, 136–41
Medvedev, Dmitry, 46, 49, 68, 77, 107
Medvedev, Sergei, The Return of the Russian Leviathan, 61
Meerson, Olga, 156
Mendelsohn, Farah, 11
Metro 2033, 9, 126, 129–32, 153
Miéville, China, The City and the City, 60–61
militarization, 29. See also World War II
Miller, Walter M., Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz, 13–14, 127–28
A Mirror for the Hero, 172
The Mirror of St. Germain, 52
Mitki subculture, 152
morality, 29, 32–33, 35, 38, 51–54, 72, 77, 79, 101, 112, 119, 140, 171, 175
Moscow 2042, 53n10
Mother of God Center, 78
“Mother’s Day,” 162
Mundfish Studio, 155
Mussorgsky, Modest, 4
Nabokov, Vladimir, 171
Nadkarni, Maya, 7
National Review, 87
nauchnaia fantastika (scientific fantasy), 20
Nazinov, Pyotr, “Red Means Blood,” 162
Nazis: Russian collaboration with, 30; Ukrainian nationalism and, 7, 34, 167, 173, 176. See also Hitler, Adolf; World War II
Necromancers of Our Times, 79–80
neopaganism, 80
new religious movements (NRMs), 78–80
Nicholas I, 87
Night Watch, 17
Noordenbos, Boris, 7
Norenstein, Yuri, 170
Norka, Sergei, 5
Northern Spider, 157
nostalgia. See Soviet nostalgia
nuclear disasters, 99–102. See also Chernobyl disaster
Odyssey, 42
Ogle, Vanessa, 2n1
Olesha, Yuri: Envy, 88; “Liompa,” 88; A List of Blessings, 89
Olympic Games (Sochi 2014), 168–72
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 139
online communities and projects, 23, 52, 84, 124, 130, 145–46; Masyanya, 172–78. See also SovPunk
optimism, 26, 94, 124, 128, 143, 146, 157–58, 164–65, 174
Orange Revolution, 34
O’Reilly, Bill, 83
Ottoman Empire, 87
“Our Nuthouse Is Voting for Putin” (performed by Rabfak), 8, 83–84, 124, 170
Oushakine, Sergeui Alex, 7, 8n6
Outlander, 11
Oxxymiron, 143
paradoxes (in time travel), 10, 18–21, 27, 42, 49. See also Butterfly Effect
Park of the Soviet Period (film), 13, 108–15, 118
Park of the Soviet Period (tourist attraction), 108–10, 114, 121
past: historical reenactments, 35, 51, 112, 118, 170 (see also reconstruction projects); political uses of, 4–8, 35–39, 168–72. See also Soviet nostalgia; Time Crasher stories; time travel; World War II
patriotism, 30–31, 39, 45, 64, 107
Pelevin, Victor, 60
Pepe the Frog, 152
perestroika, 4, 30, 46, 62, 64, 95, 104, 114, 146
Periodic Table, 171
Perkins, Charlotte Gilman, Herland, 134
pessimism, 36, 126, 142–43, 146, 158
The Petrovs in and around the Flu, 148
Platonov, Andrei, The Foundation Pit, 120
Plato’s Republic, 119; Allegory of the Cave, 127, 140
pluralism, 81, 138. See also difference
Plutonium Players, 83n10
Pokrovskii, Vladimir, “Groundhog’s Day, or Greetings from the Man with Horns,” 172
police procedurals, 40, 42–45, 47, 107
political assassination, 25, 27, 38
politics: rejection of, 37–39, 49, 139. See also geopolitics
popadantsy, 9–10. See also Time Crasher stories
“Popadantsy,” 18
portal quest historical fiction, 11. See also Time Crasher stories
post-apocalyptic futures, 9, 14, 124–32, 135, 142–43, 148, 164
postmodernism, 110n13, 119, 125
power, 63, 66, 68, 71, 76–77, 84–86, 94, 101–2, 128, 134, 142, 147; soft power, 163, 169n3
present-day alternative USSR, 12–13; belief in continued existence of USSR, 59–60, 65–85; morbidity and mortality metaphors, 87–98; Other Russias, 60–62; reconstruction projects, 107–22; Soviet antiquity and, 61–63; territory and, 122; in Time Crasher stories, 99–107; voluntarist approach to, 62–65
presuppositionalism, 81
The Prisoner, 112
Prometheus, 127
The Promised Heavens, 84
Propp, Vladimir, 51
Psycho, 153
Puppets, 84
Pushkin, Alexander, 4
Putin, Vladimir: capitalism and, 110; centralized power, 5, 68, 135; Huntington and, 133–34; ideology, 167–72; opposition to, 84–85, 175–77; Orthodox Church and, 81; patriotism and, 107; retrohistorical orientation, 4–8, 60, 83–84, 111, 114; return to presidency, 46, 167; sovereignty and, 14, 64, 66, 77, 82, 132; suppression of civil society, 77, 81–82. See also Ukraine, Russian invasion of
radiant future, 4, 99, 145–47, 155, 163
Radishchev, Alexander, 175
Rand, Ayn, Anthem, 128
Reagan, Ronald, 38
realism, 131. See also socialist realism
reconstruction projects (simulations of Soviet Union), 107–22
“Red Means Blood,” 162
Red Star, 161
Reichsbürger (Reich Citizens), 70–72, 74
Repentance, 114
repressive forces, 30, 80–82, 92, 104, 137, 174–75
retrofuturism, 124, 144, 156, 159
Return of the Russian Leviathan, 61
Reunova, Valentina, 68
revanchism, 8, 68, 83, 122, 161, 167
revolution, 53, 64, 69, 143–45, 153, 163–64, 169. See also October Revolution
Riazanov, Eldar, 84
Rip van Winkle time travel trope, 53, 55, 86–87
Roadside Picnic, 132
Robinson, Kim Stanley, Red Mars, 3, 147
Romanov, Mikhail, 4
Romanov dynasty, 137
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 16
Rough Draft, 62
Rozhnov, Valery, Back to the USSR, 50–52
rubles, 11, 24, 41, 69, 72, 117
Russian Federation: conditional-subjunctive, 13, 15, 105, 166–67, 173–78; disruption of time in, 1–14; documents, 71–73; establishment of, 64 (see also USSR, collapse of); territory of, 69, 75, 122, 123. See also Putin, Vladimir
Russian nationalism, 19; antisemitism and, 75, 80. See also affective attachment to state
Russian Orthodox Church, 78–79, 81, 152
Russian Revolution, 169
Russian Turtles, 158
Russofuturism, 157
Russophobia, 34
Salnikov, Aleksei: Indirectly, 148–50; The Petrovs in and around the Flu, 148
Sandman, 63
satire, 54, 127, 131, 140, 173
Save the USSR!, 20, 39, 48, 52
Savvin, Aleksei, “The Little Earth,” 163
Schlafly, Phyllis, 83
Schmitt, Carl, 66
science fiction, 53, 99, 131; history and, 167; liberpunk, 80n9, 162; popadantsy, 9–10 (see also Time Crasher stories); social science fiction, 161–62; on space exploration, 160–65; time travel and, 19 (see also time travel); utopias in, 146–47
Selin, Adrian, 4n3
Sellars, Peter, 118
Serebrennikov, Kirill, 148
sexual violence, 13, 118–19, 140–42
Shaov, Timur, “Soviet Tango,” 113
Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz, 4n3
Shchusev, Alexey, 170
Shevchenko, Olga, 7
Shevchuk, Yuri, 121
The Shtrafbat’s Constellation, 54n13
Shushkevich, Stanislav, 86n2
“sick man of Europe,” 87
siesit siesit (username), 150–53
simulation, 97. See also reconstruction projects
Skorkin, Konstantin, 167
Slapovskii, Aleksei, Back, 172
Slavnikova, Olga, The Man Who Couldn’t Die, 90–91, 94–98, 121, 172
Sleeper, 53
Smith, Paula, “A Trekkie’s Tale,” 48
Snegovaya, Maria, 133
Snyder, Timothy, 8
Sobyanin, Sergei, 104
socialist realism, 38–39, 57, 153
Society for Krishna Consciousness, 78
Sokolov, Boris, 139n4
Solovyov, Vladimir, 111
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 53n10; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 139
Sorokin, Vladimir: Day of the Oprichnik, 9, 14, 124, 133, 134, 139–42; Sugar Kremlin, 14; Telluria, 14
Soros, George, 77
Sovereign Citizens, 70–72, 74, 75n6
sovereignty, 14, 64, 66, 70, 77, 82, 132
Soviet nostalgia, 7–8; conditional-subjunctive, 105; critiques of, 97; for “greatness,” 66, 76, 101, 161, 165 (see also power); oprichnina and, 138–39; politics and, 119; reconstruction and reenactment projects, 108–17; restorationist groups and, 65–67 (see also Citizens of the USSR); restorative, 21, 61; in Sochi Olympics ceremony, 170; SovPunk and, 150–55, 160, 165; styob (ironic overidentification) and, 83–85; Time Crasher stories and, 18, 21, 39–47, 52–54, 57, 101
Soviet Park (public art project), 61
Sovietpunk. See SovPunk
SovietPunk: Nostalgia for the Present, 155
“Soviet Tango,” 113
Soviet Union. See USSR
space program, Soviet, 28, 93, 106, 158–61, 165, 169
speculative fiction: post-Soviet Russian, 9–14. See also alternate history; fantasy; popadantsy; science fiction; Time Crasher stories
Spider-Man, 157
Sputnik, 160
Stagnation (Brezhnev era), 46, 47, 57, 63, 96–97, 101
Stalenhag, Simon, 156
Stalin, Joseph: Citizens of the USSR and, 69, 74, 76; collective justice, 138; future orientation, 94, 109, 110, 124; industrialization, 169; repression and terror, 23, 31, 97, 101, 113–14, 120, 126; revolution from above, 64; subjunctive and, 166–67; Time Crasher stories about, 16–18, 27, 29, 31, 55, 101
Stalker, 132
state: affective attachment to, 19, 64–65, 74–76, 98, 114; as imagined community, 63; voluntarist approaches to Soviet statehood, 62–65
Stroop, Chrissy, 81
Strugatsky brothers (Arkady and Boris), 26n4; Hard to Be a God, 14; Roadside Picnic, 132
Student, Komsomol Girl, Athlete, 22–29, 35–36, 99
styob (ironic overidentification), 82–85, 140
subjunctive: conditional, 13, 15, 105, 173–74, 176–77; counterfactual conditional, 166–67
Sugar Kremlin, 14
“Summer Internship,” 163
Suvorkin, Timur, 161n17
sympathetic magic, 150
Tales from the Loop, 156n14
Talyaka, Yana, “Not a Word of Lies,” 162–63
Taraskin, Sergei, 67–69, 75–76, 82
Tarkovsky, Andrei, 132
Tarugin, Oleg, 54n13
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 171
television, 171
Telluria, 14
Temnikova, Liza, 169
territorial expansion, 104, 121–22, 135–36, 177. See also imperialism; Ukraine, Russian invasion of
Tesak (Maxim Martinskevich), 119
The Third Empire, 9, 14, 124, 133–40, 142
time: linear, 6; post-Soviet discourse of, 1–14, 167; timelessness, 3, 5–6; voluntarist approaches to, 1–3, 62. See also future; past; present-day alternative USSR
Time, Forward!, 1
Time Crasher stories: authorial self-insertion, 20–21, 25, 48–49; defined, 10–11; as fan fiction, 18, 20–21, 23, 25, 48, 52, 61–62; hero’s agency in, 18–19, 25, 37–39, 47–52, 57; historical consciousness in, 31–36; origins of genre, 19–21; persistent Soviet Union, 99–108; preventing collapse of Soviet Union, 12, 16–19, 24–28, 83, 99; rejection of politics, 37–39, 49; set in 1970s, 42–47; set in the future, 53–58; set in World War II, 19, 21, 23, 28–37, 46, 53, 57, 161, 167, 173; Soviet nostalgia in, 18, 21, 39–47, 52–54, 57, 101; uncanny, 21–28, 33, 41–42; video games and, 154–55; voluntarist approach to time, 62
time travel, 10–11; as disruptive, 56; free will and, 49; paradoxes, 10, 18–21, 27, 42, 49; Rip van Winkle trope, 53, 55, 86–87. See also Butterfly Effect; Time Crasher stories
Tolstaya, Tatyana, The Slynx, 9, 126–30, 132
Tolstoi, Sergei, “The New Person,” 162–63
transformative fandom, 61
transgender identity, 25, 27–28, 81
“A Trekkie’s Tale,” 48
The True Mirror of Youth, 174
The Truman Show, 50
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 10, 20, 53
UFMS (Administration of the Federal Migration Service), 73
Ukraine, Russian invasion of: in 2014, 7, 133, 136; in 2022, 7, 60, 81–82, 109, 121–22, 133, 136, 155, 165, 167, 169, 173, 175–78; Ukrainian nationalism and “Nazis,” 7, 34–35, 167, 173, 176
Ulanov, Oleg, Unusual Travel Agent, 50n8
Ulitskaya, Lyudmila, The Funeral Party, 88–90, 94, 98
uncanny: Freud on, 14–15, 27; post-Soviet, 21–28, 33, 41–42, 60–61, 97, 169
“Union Maniac” community, 150–52
Union of Slavic Forces of Rus, 67, 81–82
Union of the SSR Labor Union, 69
United Kingdom, 45n4
United States: Christian Right, 81; cults in, 78; Fourteenth Amendment, 71; imagined collapse of, 100–102, 105–6, 136; politics, 38; Russian émigrés in, 88–90; Sovereign Citizens groups, 70–72, 74, 75n6; SovPunk portrayals of, 162–63; space program, 160
The Universe of Metro 2033, 130
Unusual Travel Agent, 50n8
USSR: affective attachment to, 19, 64–65, 74–76, 98, 114 (see also Soviet nostalgia); central planning, 1, 97, 124; collapse of, 1, 5, 11–12, 16–19, 24–28, 64–66, 83, 86–98, 99, 101, 123–24, 135 (see also Russian Federation); ideology, 4; life cycle of, 21; material culture, 121; restorationists, 67 (see also Citizens of the USSR); Soviet antiquity, 61–63; Soviet subjectivity, 114–15; space program, 28, 93, 106, 158–61, 165, 169; voluntarist approach to time, 1–3, 62
USSR-2061, 124, 145–46, 158–65
“The USSR Is Our Ancient Rome,” 61–62
utopias: aesthetics, 12; anthropology of, 37; ideology and, 9, 12, 76, 146–47, 162–64; More’s Utopia, 54, 134; in nineteenth-century literature, 14, 53–55, 134–35; Other Russias, 60; satire and, 127; SovPunk, 148–65; Stalinist, 94; in Time Crasher stories, 26, 28, 50
Van Zaichik, Holm, Eurasian Symphony, 133
Varlamov, Ilya, 77
Verses on My Soviet Passport, 69–70, 72
video games, 14, 126, 129–32, 144, 150, 153–55, 158–59
violence, 13, 29, 82, 121, 140–42, 152, 164
Vissarion, 78
“Vitya Solnyshkin and Joseph Stalin,” 16–19, 29, 39
Vladimirovich, Vladimir, 8
Vodolazkin, Eugene, The Aviator, 55–58
Voinovich, Vladimir, Moscow 2042, 53n10
voluntarist approaches: to Soviet citizenship, 163; to Soviet statehood, 62–65; Stalinist, 164, 167; to time, 1–3, 62
The Walking Dead, 143
Watchmen (Moore and Gibbons), 6
We Are from the Future 2 (sequel), 30, 33–35
Wells, H. G., The Time Machine, 11, 19–20
Westworld (1973 film), 111
Wijermars, Marielle, 139
Willis, Andy, 45n4
wish-fulfillment fantasies, 13, 25, 41, 47, 52, 56, 135–36, 150
Witnesses of the USSR, 79
World War II: commemorations of Soviet victory in, 6–8, 30–32, 33n9, 170; as formative trauma, 125; Time Crasher stories about, 19, 21, 23, 28–37, 46, 53, 57, 161, 167, 173. See also Hitler, Adolf; Immortal Regiment; Nazis