Book ID: CBB001551522

We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (2012)

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Banerjee, Anindita (Author)


Wesleyan University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 206 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Science fiction emerged in Russia considerably earlier than its English version and instantly became the hallmark of Russian modernity. We Modern People investigates why science fiction appeared here, on the margins of Europe, before the genre had even been named, and what it meant for people who lived under conditions that Leon Trotsky famously described as “combined and uneven development.” Russian science fiction was embraced not only in literary circles and popular culture, but also by scientists, engineers, philosophers, and political visionaries. Anindita Banerjee explores the handful of well-known early practitioners, such as Briusov, Bogdanov, and Zamyatin, within a much larger continuum of new archival material comprised of journalism, scientific papers, popular science texts, advertisements, and independent manifestos on social transformation. In documenting the unusual relationship between Russian science fiction and Russian modernity, this book offers a new critical perspective on the relationship between science, technology, the fictional imagination, and the consciousness of being modern.

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Review Adams, Mark B. (2015) Review of "We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 474-475). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rispoli, Giulia
Maria Zalambani
Ljudmilla Chapovalova
Franz Haas
Hellberg, Dustin
Friedman, Lester D.
Concepts
Science and literature
Science fiction
Science and culture
Science and politics
Science and ethics
Science and ideology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Modern
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Russia
Soviet Union
Europe
United States
Sweden
Germany
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