https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.16723
The author of this article tries to explain the causes of the disturbing phenomenon occurring in Russian alternative fantasy. In the alternative history of Russia drawn by Russian fantasists since the early 1990s, solutions associated with Western liberal democracy are increasingly losing their attractiveness at the expense of nationalistic, chauvinistic, autocratic and totalitarian attitudes. The West's distrust of Russia and the latter's hostility towards NATO and European Union countries have led to an increase in pro-imperial sentiment. In Russian fantasy, this is evidenced by the popularity of the empire in alternative histories and in so-called imperial fantasy. The novel All Capable of Carryring Weapon Andrei Lazarchuk’s analyzed in the article is one of the few Russian alternative histories in which Russia owes its prosperity to socio-political solutions imported from the West - from Germany and the United States. At the same time, the author tries to show that the rejection of Western liberal democracy by Russian society and Russian fantasists is a deeper problem – as it turns out, this system also finds its critics in the West, as evidenced by the works of Immanuel Wallerstein and Patrick Deneen.
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No. 2 (186) (2024)
Published: 2024-04-22
10.31261/pr
Język Polski
Русский
English