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Revolutionary Dreams - Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Paperback, New Ed)
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Revolutionary Dreams - Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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