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Revolutionary dreams: utopian vision and experimental life in the Russian Revolution
Richard Stites
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xi)
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Introduction (page 3)
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Part I From Dreaming to Awakening (page 11)
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1 Social Daydreaming Before the Revolution (page 13)
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Utopian Mentalities (page 13)
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Popular Utopia: Justice, Community, Rebellion (page 14)
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Administrative Utopia: Parade, Facade, Colony (page 19)
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Populism: Vision and Counterculture (page 24)
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Marxism: City and Machine (page 30)
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2 Revolution: Utopias in the Air and on the Ground (page 37)
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A New World (page 37)
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The Dreamer in the Kremlin (page 41)
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War Communism as Utopia (page 46)
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Beyond the Green Wall (page 52)
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Part II Living the Revolution (page 59)
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3 Revolutionary Iconoclasm (page 61)
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Vandalism: War on Luxury (page 61)
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Iconoclasm: War on Signs (page 64)
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Nihilism: War on Culture (page 68)
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Makhaevism: War on Intellectuals (page 72)
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Anti-Iconoclasm (page 76)
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4 Festivals of the People (page 79)
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Days of Revolution (page 80)
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Early Signs of Bolshevism (page 83)
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Moscow: Talking City (page 88)
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Petrograd: Theater City (page 93)
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Ritual and Carnival (page 97)
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5 Godless Religion (page 101)
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Godkillers and Godbuilders (page 101)
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Storming the Heavens (page 105)
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Rituals of Conterfaith (page 109)
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Proletarian Morality (page 115)
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The Missing Faith (page 119)
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6 The Republic of Equals (page 124)
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Equality and Justice (page 124)
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Russian Levellers (page 126)
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Dress, Speech, and Deference (page 131)
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Utopian Miniature: The Conductorless Orchestra (page 135)
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Privilege and Revolution (page 140)
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7 Man the Machine (page 145)
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The Cult of Ford and Taylor (page 146)
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Utopian Robotry (page 149)
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The Struggle for Time (page 155)
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The Art of Production (page 159)
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Time, Space, Motion, Order (page 161)
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Part III We: The Community of the Future (page 165)
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8 Utopia in Time: Futurology and Science Fiction (page 167)
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Time Forward (page 167)
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Utopia, Science, and Futurology (page 168)
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Maps of Heaven and Hell (page 171)
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Decoding Revolutionary Fantasy (page 179)
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Back to the Future: Nostalgic Utopia (page 184)
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9 Utopia in Space: City and Building (page 190)
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The Antiurban Impulse (page 191)
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The Greening of Russia: The Disurbanists (page 193)
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Supercity: The Urbanists (page 197)
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Socialism in One Building: The House Commune (page 200)
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10 Utopia in Life: The Communal Movement (page 205)
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Native Traditions (page 205)
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Communes on the Land (page 207)
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Communes in the Town (page 213)
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The Laboratory of the Revolution (page 219)
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Part IV Dreams and Nightmares (page 223)
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11 War on the Dreamers (page 225)
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The End of Revolutionary Utopia (page 225)
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Iconoclasm, Festival, Godbuilding (page 227)
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Anti-Egalitarianism (page 231)
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Fantasectomy: Utopia, City, Commune (page 235)
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12 Conclusion (page 242)
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Lunar Economics and Social Revolution (page 242)
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Stalin and the Fantasy State (page 246)
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The Fate of Revolutionary Utopia (page 250)
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A Note on Sources and Abbreviations (page 255)
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Notes (page 257)
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Index (page 297)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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HZ | 253.1 (Aug. 1991): 225-226 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27627747 |
AHR | 95.4 (Oct. 1990): 1251-1252 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2163634 |
RH | 285.2 (Apr. - Jun. 1991): 426-428 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40955078 |
SS | 42.1 (Jan. 1990): 152-153 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/152170 |
US | 2.1/2 (1991): 253-255 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20719073 |
JGO | 39.2 (1991): 285-287 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41048605 |
RR | 49.2 (Apr. 1990): 183-187 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/130013 |
SEER | 69.4 (Oct. 1991): 756-757 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4210827 |
RuH | 16.2/4 (1989): 477-479 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/24656533 |
SR | 52.3 (Autumn. 1993): 568-578 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2499724 |
SR | 57.4 (Winter. 1998): 864-877 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2501050 |
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Published: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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