This book discusses utopian ideals and experimentation before, during, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Richard Stites grounds his study in the larger field of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate the vast tableau of revolutionary life. Above all, he reveals how people expressed revolutionary sentiment through myth, ritual, symbol, cult, and community.

Winner of the 1990 Vucinich Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Reviews
`Stites has produced a dazzling compendium of the manifold ideas and projects that flashed across Russia after 1917.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'a comprehensive and sympathetic look at a long-gone age of revolutionary dreamers and utopia builders' SLOVO (from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
'thoroughly researched and extremely informative book ... A book to be enjoyed.' Political Studies
'Richard Stites' book is a lively, charismatic catalogue of the many manifestations of Russian 'pre-figurative behaviour' ... Stites profitably indulges the historian's love for accreted details and anecdotes, which add up to a cultural mosaic and suggest a scholarly proof.' Spencer Golub, Brown University, Theatre Research International, 1992


Awards
Winner of Winner of the 1990 Vucinich Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.



Book Information
ISBN 9780195055368
Author Richard Stites
Format Hardback
Page Count 324
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 649g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 158mm * 27mm