{"product_id":"red-star-the-first-bolshevik-utopia-paperback-softback-9780253203175","title":"Red Star; The First Bolshevik Utopia (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253203175","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRed Star\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe First Bolshevik Utopia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexander Bogdanov (Author), Loren R. Graham (Edited by), Richard Stites (Edited by), Charles Rougle (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253203175\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 June 1984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.413 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] surprisingly moving story.\" —The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov's] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.\" —Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFantasy and Revolution: Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Bolshevik Science Fiction, Richard Stites\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRED STAR: A Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eENGINNEER MENNI: A Novel of Fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA MARTIAN STRANDED ON EARTH: A Poem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBogdanov's Inner Message, Loren R. Graham\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656058106136,"sku":"9780253203175","price":14.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/red-star-the-first-bolshevik-utopia-paperback-softback-9780253203175","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}