title: АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНАЯИСТОРИЯНАПОСТСОВЕТСКОМПРОСТРАНСТВЕ: ДВЕ ТРАЕКТОРИИ ОДНОЙ ИДЕИ
abstract: The article explores the origin of alternative history as a trend of the science fiction genre in the USSR popular culture. The study considers the main development stages of this trend according to Russian and Ukrainian cultural contexts. The research allows to identify two directions of the mentioned development. The first one applies to Russian popular culture - from the analytics of the current state of the Russian statehood to the revanchism related to the "lost empire". The second one refe
journal: Filologia Polska.