Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema

Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University. She is the author of "We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity" (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), winner of the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize.

INTRODUCTION

Anindita Banerjee: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the ScreenI



I. FROM UTOPIAN TRADITIONS TO REVOLUTIONARY DREAMS


Darko Suvin: The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction
Mark B Adams: Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov
Anindita Banerjee: Generating Power
Asif A Siddiqi: Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia



II. RUSSIA’S ROARING TWENTIES


Dominic Esler: Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social Context
Eliot Borenstein: The Plural Self: Zamjatin’s We and the Logic of Synecdoche
Andrew J Horton: Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov’s Aelita
Yvonne Howell: Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov’s Journey into the Heart of Dogness 



III. FROM STALIN TO SPUTNIK AND BEYOND


Michael G Smith: Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics
Lynn Barker and Robert Skotak: Klushantsev: Russia’s Wizard of Fantastika
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr: Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963–72
Stephen Dalton: Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker



IV. FUTURES AT THE END OF UTOPIA


Elana Gomel: Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia
Vlad Strukov: The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy
Aleksandr Chantsev: The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s