The Facade Of Stability: Understanding Hypernormalization In Global And Domestic Contexts – OpEd

Alexei Yurchak, a well-known Russian historian, coined the term “hypernormalization” in his notable work Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. He used the term "hypernormalization" to describe the state of Soviet society during the late years of the USSR, specifically in the 1980s. In his...