Alexei Yurchak (russian: Алексей Владимирович Юрчак) is a professor of

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at the

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. Born and raised in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, the

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, his research concerns Soviet history and post-Soviet transformations in

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and the former Soviet Union.

"Hypernormalisation"

Yurchak coined the term "hypernormalisation" in his 2005 book ''Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation''. The book focused on the political, social and cultural conditions during what he terms "late socialism" (the period after Stalin but before Perestroika, mid-1950s – mid-1980s) which led to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet state in 1991. In 2007 ''Everything was Forever'' won the Wayne Vucinic award (best book of the year) from the American

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. Yurchak rewrote the book in Russian, expanding and revising it considerably. It was published in 2014 by NLO (Moscow) and in 2015 won the Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Award for Russia's best non-fiction book of the year.

Books

''Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось. Последнее советское поколение''
Новое литературное обозрение, 2014
''Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation''

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, 2006

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