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Discussion

Politics of history is established topic which concentrated on various aspects of collective memory including in East and Central European context. Unlike this topic, futuristic narratives in their reflection of politics do not attract academic attention. In this paper we deal with political narratives embodied in various which we differ from political programmes and official declarations, from one hand, and from literary anti utopia, from the other. There are two main texts analysed in the paper - prospect of school text-book ‘History of Russia, 2014-2045’ and recent article of Vladislav Surkov ‘Peoplless democracy and other political miracles of 2121’. Although, the first text was already analysed in previous researches the new article of one of the Krimlin’ propagandist Surkov poses a series of research questions analysed in the paper. How political futuristic ideas correspond with Russian officials political goals (1), and how they reflect popular imaginations about the future. The preliminary hypothesis is that similar to politics of the past Russian official political futurism tends to supersede the national past with an extreme form of aggressiveness, a forward-looking, modernising  cult  of  the  nation and tradition,  whose  global  reach  was  continuously  redefined by violence and the confrontation with ‘enemies’ of ‘Russian civilisation’.