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‘Five years from now, these readers will be soldiers’: The Russian literature encouraging teens to enlist

Summary by Upstract
Master-race stories of heroic characters battling against zombie Nazis and western spies to recover imperial grandeur are a bleak new spin on an old propaganda tradition ‘Z literature”, a subgenre of Russian fantasy fiction characterised by nationalistic, pro-war storylines, has been on the rise…
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Upstract broke the news in on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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