Per-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University.

Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at University of Copenhagen.

INTRODUCTION: Per-Arne Bodin and Mikhail Suslov
PART 1
Chapter 1: Alternative Russian Revolution: Viacheslav Rybakov and Kir Bulychev, Go Koshino
Chaper 2: Ressentiment and post-traumatic syndrome in Russian post-Soviet speculative fiction: Two trends, Maria Galina
Chapter 3: Telluro-Cosmic Imperial Utopia and Contemporary Russian Art, Maria Engström
Chapter 4: Lazarus on the Ark: Heterotopias in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin, Muireann Maguire
PART 2
Chapter 5: Conservative science fiction in contemporary Russian literature and politics, Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 6: Othering Russia: Eduard Limonov's Retrofuturistic (Anti-) Utopia, Andrei Rogatchevski
Chapter 7: Religio-political utopia by Iana Zavatskaia, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova
Chapter 8: "Respectable Xenophobia:"Science Fiction, Utopia and Conspiracy, Viktor Shnirel'man
PART 3
Chapter 9: Church Slavonic in Russian dystopias and utopias, Per-Arne Bodin
Chapter 10: Contested Utopias: Language Ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped, Ingunn Lunde
Chapter 11: 'Londongrad' as a Linguistic Imaginary: Russophone migrants in the UK in the work of Michael Idov and Andrei Ostalsky, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
PART 4
Chapter 12: 'Provinces, Piety, and Promotional Putinism: Mapping Aleksandr Prokhanov's Counter-Utopian Russia', Edith W. Clowes
Chapter 13: Parameters of Space-Time and Degrees of (Un)-Freedom: Dmitry Bykov's ZhD, Sofya Khagi
Chapter 14: The new "norma": Vladimir Sorokin's Telluria and post-utopian science fiction, Mark Lipovetsky
AFTERWARD: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past? An Afterword on Explorations in Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Kåre Johan Mjør, Sanna Turoma
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX