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In Moscow's Shadows 91: Russian Fantasies - Putin's address to the nation and the lessons from Russian science fiction
In Moscow's Shadows
Is Russia Really a Part of the Empire?
Putin has been trying to use all kinds of, you know, past history, especially past historical wars to try and explain and mobilize in the present. And I think this is also a phenomenon that lends itself to this notion of the imperial science fiction genre. It's because precisely it is that sense of unsatisfied modern urges being met by reviving, reinventing, and reinstating past experiences where Russia can at least think that it was the kind of Russia that it would like to be today.
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