Alexei Vladimirovich Yurchak (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Юрчак; born July 21, 1960) is a Russian-born American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yurchak was born on 21 July 1960[2] and raised in Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union.
[5] In 2007, Everything Was Forever won the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
It was published in 2014 by Moscow's New Literary Observer and won the 2015 Enlightener Prize in the Humanities category.
[7] Science fiction authors and brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky described the reality Alexei Yurchak would later coin as hypernormalisation in their 1971 novel Roadside Picnic.