Василий Аксенов, “Остров Крым” и “русский мир”: гибридность как упущенный шанс русского западничества
Journal: Ab imperio
Year: 2017

The novel <i>The Island of Crimea</i> was written by Vasily Aksyonov in 1979, before his emigration from the USSR to the United States. Once perceived as a powerful anti-utopian piece and a satire on the Soviet regime, today this visionary book is classified as a work of alternative history, so popular with contemporary Russian readers. The actual annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 seemed to confirm the mainstream interpretation of the novel as revealing the power of Russian nationalist and