Red star : the first Bolshevik Utopia
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Red star : the first Bolshevik Utopia
(Soviet history, politics, society, and thought)
Indiana University Press, c1984
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257)
Contents of Works
- Red star
- Engineer Menni
- A Martian stranded on earth
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"[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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Fantasy and Revolution: Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Bolshevik Science Fiction, Richard Stites
RED STAR: A Utopia
ENGINNEER MENNI: A Novel of Fantasy
A MARTIAN STRANDED ON EARTH: A Poem
Bogdanov's Inner Message, Loren R. Graham
Selected Bibliography
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