Introduction: Utopia and dystopia : the impulse of history / Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva -- Dreaming of the city : Mikhail Larionov's Provincial dandy, 1907 / John Milner -- Utopian sex : the metamorphosis of androgynous imagery in Russian art of the pre- and post-revolutionary period / Natalia Budanova -- The Soviet Icarus : from the dream of free flight to the nightmare of free fall / Maria Tsantsanoglou -- Theo van Doesburg and Russia : utopia thwarted / Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita -- Fighting for a utopian childhood : militarism in children's periodicals of the early Soviet Union / Maria Starkova-Vindman -- Spectral geographies in Russian emigre prose : the cases of Petr Krasnov and Georgii Peskov / Muireann Maguire -- Twice removed : Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-Putilovskii / Nicoletta Misler -- Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin / Maria Kokkori -- Solomon Nikritin : the old and the new / John E. Bowlt -- The ghost in the machine : the modernist architectural utopia under Stalin / Christina Lodder -- Socialist realism and stasis / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Utopia in retreat : the closure of the State Museum of New Western Art in 1948 / Maria Mileeva -- The art of cybernetic communism / David Crowley -- Geometry after utopia / Brandon Taylor
Summary
This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically
