NEOIMPERIALNE MITY I RESENTYMENTY: WSZYSCY ZDOLNI DO NOSZENIA BRONI ANDRIEJA ŁAZARCZUKA
NEO-IMPERIAL MYTHS AND RESENTIMENTS: ALL CAPABLE OF CARRYING WEAPON ANDREI LAZARCHUK’S

Summary/Abstract: The author of this article tries to explain the causes of the disturbing phenomenon occurring in Russian alternative fantasy.In the alternative history of Russia drawn by Russian fantasists since the early 1990s, solutions associated with Westernliberal democracy are increasingly losing their attractiveness at the expense of nationalistic, chauvinistic, autocratic andtotalitarian attitudes. The West’s distrust of Russia and the latter’s hostility towards NATO and European Union countrieshave led to an increase in pro-imperial sentiment. In Russian fantasy, this is evidenced by the popularity of the empire inalternative histories and so-called imperial fantasy. The novel All Capable of Carrying Weapon Andrei Lazarchuk’s analyzedin the article is one of the few Russian alternative histories in which Russia owes its prosperity to socio-political solutionsimported from the West — from Germany and the United States. At the same time, the author tries to show that the rejec-tion of Western liberal democracy by Russian society and Russian fantasy and SF writers is a deeper problem — as it turnsout, this system also finds its critics in the West, as evidenced by the works of Immanuel Wallerstein and Patrick Deneen.

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