Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen viii
4. Part One. From Utopian Traditions to Revolutionary Dreams
5. The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction 1
6. Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov 30
7. Generating Power 51
8. Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia 79
9. Part Two. Russia’s Roaring Twenties
10. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social Context 117
11. The Plural Self: Zamiatin’s We and the Logic of Synecdoche 147
12. Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov’s Aelita 166
13. Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov’s Journey into the Heart of Dogness 178
14. Part Three. From Stalin to Sputnik and Beyond
15. Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics 201
16. Klushantsev: Russia’s Wizard of Fantastika 214
17. Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963–72 231
18. Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker 281
19. Part Four. Futures at the End of Utopia
20. Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia 290
21. The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy 306
22. The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s 328
23. Index 371