Revolutionary Dreams - Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)

The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts. In this study, historian Richard Stites offers a vivid portrayal of revolutionary life and the cultural factors--myth, ritual, cult, and symbol--that sustained it, and describes the principal forms of utopian thinking and experimental impulse. Analyzing the inevitable clash between the authoritarian elements in the Bolshevik's vision and the libertarian behavior and aspirations of large segments of the population, Stites interprets the pathos of utopian fantasy as the key to the emotional force of the Bolshevik revolution which gave way in the early 1930s to bureaucratic state centralism and a theology of Stalinism.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1989
First published:	December 1988
Authors:	Richard Stites (Professor of History)
Dimensions:	240 x 165 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505536-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-505536-5
Barcode:	9780195055368

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