title: ON THE GENRE BOUNDARIES OF THE RUSSIAN ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL
abstract: The object of research presented in the article is the Russian alternate history novel. In the course of analysis of variousdefinitions of the genre, the author singles out its major and minor elements, links between the alternatehistory novel and historical, pseudo-historical and crypto-historical novels, utopia and dystopia. The purposeof the article is to determine the differences between the Russian alternate history novel and the relatedgenres in the course of the genre specificity study, a
journal: Philological Class