From 28 May 2023
In the Museum’s auditorium, Alexey Konakov and Ivan Aksenov, editor of the portal Gorky, will discuss why Soviet people were so interested in UFOs, science fiction, alien civilizations, and other “incredible” phenomena, what connected this interest to the political situation, and how a crytpo-bourgeois consumer society took shape in the USSR.
On May 28, Garage Shop is offering 10% discount on the book Waning World.
Alexey Konakov (b. 1985) is an independent researcher of late Soviet culture and literature, winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (2016), author of the book The Second Outside: Essays on the Unofficial Literature of the USSR (TransLit, 2017) and papers published in the literary-critical almanac Translit, the journals New Literary Observer, Novy Mir, Znamya, Vestnik Evropy, and the online journals Colta.ru, Gorky.media, Knife.media, and others.
Ivan Aksenov is an editor at the publisher Common Place and the sites Gorky and KROT.
Free admission with advance registration.
