Main entry:

Stites, Richard, 1931-2010.

Title & Author:

Revolutionary dreams : utopian vision and experimental life in the Russian Revolution / Richard Stites.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Description:

xii, 307 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296) and index.
Part I. From dreaming to awakening -- Social daydreaming before the revolution -- Revolution: utopias in the air and on the ground -- Part II. Living the Revolution -- Revolutionary iconoclasm -- Festivals of the people -- Godless religion -- The republic of equals -- Man the machine -- Part III. We: the community of the future -- Utopia in time: futurology and science fiction -- Utopia in space: city and building -- Utopia in life: the communal movement -- Part IV. Dreams and nightmares -- War on the dreamers -- Conclusion.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Stites explores the ideals behind the revolution, including drawing parallels between philosophies of imperial Russia's intelligentsia class and how the Bolsheviks molded their ideas during the revolution.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0195055365 (alk. paper)
9780195055368 (alk. paper)
0195055373 (pbk.)
9780195055375 (pbk.)
9786610440535
6610440530

Subject:

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Utopias Soviet Union.
Utopias.
Utopies.
Utopies URSS.
Intellectual life
Kultur.
Lebensform.
Revolution.
Utopie.
Geschichte
Oktoberrevolution
Revolutionäre Bewegung
City planning Soviet Union.
Soviet Union Intellectual life.
Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921.
URSS Vie intellectuelle.
URSS Histoire 1917-1921 (Révolution)
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion.
Russland
URSS Vie intellectuelle 1917-1932.
URSS 1917-1921 (Révolution)
Soviet Union Intellectual life, 1917-
Social life History, 1917-
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Form/genre:

Utopias.
Utopian fiction
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200769
Call No.: DK266.4 .S7 1989
Status: Available