Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny by Borenstein, Eliot

Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny

Today's Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of...
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Author: Eliot Borenstein
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Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny by Borenstein, Eliot

Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny

$94.18

Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny

$94.18
Author: Eliot Borenstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Today's Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of the Great Patriotic War and a society that provided for all its citizens or in an alternative future in which the USSR never collapsed. Eliot Borenstein examines the ways in which films, fiction, television, social media, political parties, and even theme parks use the conventions of time travel and alternate history to fantasize about narratives that are more appealing than the post-Soviet present.

Unstuck in Time explores the centrality of an uncannily persistent USSR in the post-Soviet cultural imagination through deeply engaged and entertaining readings of an impressive array of texts: fantasies in which characters time-crash into the Soviet past, fictions of triumphant far-future Soviet societies, and real-life enterprises feeding the belief that the Soviet Union never ended. Whether channeled into benign nostalgia or dangerous mythmaking, the cases that Borenstein analyzes reveal the extent to which the psychic shock of the end of the Soviet Union left Russians adrift, caught between a past many still long for and a future few can imagine.



Author: Eliot Borenstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9781501777899

About the Author

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Vice Chancellor for Global Programs at New York University. His books include Soviet Self-Hatred, Plots against Russia, and Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

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