The first is Save the future! The Leader’s “Time Traveler” by Viktor Poberezhnykh
Stalin gets in touch with Putin so that he can bring him back on to the right track, by declaring martial law and going to war with the United States.
The second is Crusader from the future: Commander from the Future Crusader series.
Our contemporary, abandoned in Antimir, where almost all of medieval Europe was conquered by Muslims, becomes the Commander of the knightly Order of the Holy Cross and the last hope of Christian civilization. Let all the former Commanders fall either from an enemy saber on the battlefield, or from a dagger and poison of assassins, and the Order itself, defeated by the Arabs, is on the verge of complete destruction; let the “popadanets” barely own cold weapons and sit on a horse like a dog on a fence, and against him are Polish pans, and corrupt clergymen, and warlocks, and Ugrians (Hungarians) who converted to Islam, but the Crusader from the future has 20 years of service behind him in the Soviet special forces, on the belt - the legendary blade, according to legend, belonged to John Chrysostom himself
The first author is reference here though the second is not.
Here is a longer article about those kind of Russian alt history/sci-fi books: https://www.eurozine.com/post-soviet-science-fiction-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ They seem to crop up a lot since 2010 and often feature both historical revisionism, glorifying Stalinism, and futurism of an decidedly imperialistic and fascist bent.
The first is Save the future! The Leader’s “Time Traveler” by Viktor Poberezhnykh
The second is Crusader from the future: Commander from the Future Crusader series.
The first author is reference here though the second is not.
Here is a longer article about those kind of Russian alt history/sci-fi books: https://www.eurozine.com/post-soviet-science-fiction-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ They seem to crop up a lot since 2010 and often feature both historical revisionism, glorifying Stalinism, and futurism of an decidedly imperialistic and fascist bent.
Yes. There is a link to that very article in the post to which you replied.