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Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia

Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia

Graham, Loren R.
Stites, Richard
Bogdanov, A.

Paperback

Series: Soviet History, Politics, Society, and Thought

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0253203171
ISBN13: 9780253203175
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Aug 1 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

[A] surprisingly moving story. --The New Yorker

Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it. --Slavic Review

Bogdanov's imaginative predictions for his utopia are both technological and social . . . Even more farsighted are [his] anxious forebodings about the limits and costs of the utopian future. --Science Fiction Studies

The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov's] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality. --Choice

A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist.

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