Revolutionary Dreams by Stites, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgments Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Part I From Dreaming to Awakening

1 Social Daydreaming Before the Revolution

Utopian Mentalities Popular Utopia: Justice, Community, Rebellion Administrative Utopia: Parade, Facade, Colony Populism: Vision and Counterculture Marxism: City and Machine

2 Revolution: Utopias in the Air and on the Ground

A New World The Dreamer in the Kremlin War Communism as Utopia Beyond the Green Wall

Part II Living the Revolution

3 Revolutionary Iconoclasm

Vandalism: War on Luxury Iconoclasm: War on Signs Nihilism: War on Culture Makhaevism: War on Intellectuals Anti-Iconoclasm

4 Festivals of the People

Days of Revolution Early Signs of Bolshevism Moscow: Talking City Petrograd: Theater City Ritual and Carnival

5 Godless Religion

Godkillers and Godbuilders Storming the Heavens Rituals of a Counterfaith Proletarian Morality The Missing Faith

6 The Republic of Equals

Equality and Justice Russian Levellers Dress, Speech, and Deference Utopian Miniature: The Conductorless Orchestra Privilege and Revolution

7 Man the Machine

The Cult of Ford and Taylor Utopian Robotry The Struggle for Time The Art of Production Time, Space, Motion, Order

Part III We: The Community of the Future

8. Utopia in Time: Futurology and Science Fiction

Time Forward Utopia, Science, and Futurology Maps of Heaven and Hell Decoding Revolutionary Fantasy Back to the Future: Nostalgic Utopia

9 Utopia in Space: City and Building

The Antiurban Impulse The Greening of Russia: The Disurbanists Supercity: The Urbanists Socialism in One Building: The House Commune

10 Utopia in Life: The Communal Movement

Native Traditions Communes on the Land Communes in the Town The Laboratory of the Revolution

Part IV Dreams and Nightmares

11 War on the Dreamers

The End of Revolutionary Utopia Iconoclasm, Festival, Godbuilding Anti-Egalitarianism Fantasectomy: Utopia, City, Commune

12 Conclusion

Lunar Economics and Social Revolution Stalin and the Fantasy State The Fate of Revolutionary Utopia

A Note on Sources and Abbreviations Notes Index