The Russian Language in Contemporary Conservative Dystopias

The topic of this paper concerns a subgenre of modern prose, namely the linguistic dystopia, by which I mean a depiction of a future (“pessimistically extrapolating contemporary social trends into oppressive and terrifying societies”), in which the dysfunctionality or power potential of language is thematicized and operationalized by either the narrator, various characters in the novel, or the reader. The focus in the article will be on the mirroring of the development in Russian politics and society of today in the dystopias (or utopias) of Russian conservative authors through language

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Depiction · Dystopia · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Literature · Mirroring · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Utopia · History · Law · Philosophy · Psycholinguistics and Behavioral Studies · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia