Alexei Yurchak

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Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось. Последнее советское поколение (in Russian). Moscow: New Literary Observer. 2014. ISBN   978-5-4448-0361-5.
  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN   978-0-691-12117-8.
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    HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis that popularised the term hypernormalisation.

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    Alexei Yurchak
    Алексей Владимирович Юрчак
    Born
    Alexei Vladimirovich Yurchak

    (1960-07-21) 21 July 1960 (age 64)
    Academic background
    Education Duke University