{"product_id":"unstuck-in-time-eliot-borenstein-9781501777882","title":"Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eToday's Russia, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Unstuck in Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnstuck in Time\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eliot Borenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501777882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501777882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Eliot Borenstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897762472191,"sku":"9781501777882","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_942d5337-e358-4b20-a2eb-a65e5e0ce3f7.jpg?v=1721374684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unstuck-in-time-eliot-borenstein-9781501777882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}