О жанровых границах отечественного альтернативно-исторического романа

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, as well as to formulate the criteria for identification of aparticular work as alternate history fiction.

В статье рассматриваются связи альтернативно-исторического романа с историческими, псевдоисторическими и криптоисторическими романами, утопией и антиутопией.