TY - BOOK ID - 77865497 TI - Revolutionary dreams : utopian vision and experimental life in the Russian Revolution PY - 1989 SN - 1280440538 0195363671 1601297084 9781601297082 9780195363678 9780195055368 0195055365 9786610440535 6610440530 0195055365 0195055373 9780195055375 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Utopias. KW - Ideal states KW - States, Ideal KW - Utopian literature KW - Political science KW - Socialism KW - Voyages, Imaginary KW - Dystopias KW - Soviet Union KW - Russia KW - Intellectual life. KW - History KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865497 AB - 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. ER -