Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Aleksei Gastev and Evgeny Zamyatin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3359822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Carden (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/130045 |
| OpenAlex | W2325057297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
At about the time Zamyatin was writing We, a Russian scholar, Vladimir Sviatlovsky, was writing the first history of the Russian utopian novel. Russian utopias, he observed, did not belong to the philosophical tradition of More but to the didactic tradition of Fenelon and Montesquieu. They did not set themselves the task of devising new forms of society, but set rules for the proper conduct of existing society by showing how each of its members should behave. The imaginary scenes were merely illustrations of the didactic message and not counter-realities
Art · Art history · Utopia · Philosophy · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2013 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |