On nature of realism in modern Russian military fiction of 2000-s

In the article Russian military fiction of the 2000-s is regarded: its problems, genesis and functioning in the modern literary process, reader and critic reception. Naturalistic, realistic poetics of A.Babchenko, Z.Prilepin and A.Karasev, sharply contrasting with postmodernist poetics of Russian prose of the late XXth century and determining critics to speak about "new realism", is considered in the context of precedent literary tradition, the tradition of "lieutenants prose' of the 1960-1970-s (novels and stories by Y.Bondarev, G.Baklanov, K.Vorobyov, V.Bykov) and military prose of the early 1990-s (works by V.Astafiev, O.Ermakov).