The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels*
The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels*

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the most important works of Russian-Soviet literary utopia anddystopia have been analysed to investigate the role of nature. In literary utopias,people and their needs are the measure of all things, and the image of a utopian future is the vision of a nature so subdued that the need to eat and sleep havebeen subdued as well. Yet authors, such as Chayanov, emphasise the importanceof a coexistence with nature. Dystopian authors ( Platonov and Zamyatin ) seethe meaning of nature symbolically. They see nature not only as an unconquerable force, but also as a force entirely impermissible to defeat and that shouldnot be defeated: for Platonov and Zamyatin nature is the eternal source of allthat is to come.

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