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Name: The «Gentle Death» in the twilight of civilization as a futurological problem in the Russian 20th century literature

Authors: Koroleva Yulia Igorevna

Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper is devoted to the process of forming a complex of predictive social fiction motifs marking the decline of the present civilization. Of these, the main ones are the stabilization of economic and social development, conservation of science and technology, ideology of easy, joyful death. The study has been based on the works of the Russian writers-nonfantasts of the 20th – 21th centuries.

Keywords: futurology, dystopia, death, the end of civilization, euthanasia, atlantis

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