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Alexander Bogdanov - Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia - 9780253203175 - V9780253203175
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Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia

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Description for Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia Paperback. Focuses on the communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, this work sketches out the problems that face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. Translator(s): Rougle, Charles. Series: Soviet History, Politics, Society, & Thought S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBJD; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.

"[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

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Product Details

Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Series
Soviet History, Politics, Society, & Thought S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253203175
SKU
V9780253203175
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Alexander Bogdanov
Loren R. Graham is Professor of the History of Science at MIT and author of many books on the history of Soviet science. His most recent book is Moscow Stories (IUP, 2006). Richard Stites is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His most recent book is Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia. Charles Rougle is Associate ... Read more

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

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