Nadchodzący świat 1923-2123 Jakowa Okuniewa w kontekście tradycji utopii literackiej
The Coming World 1923-2123 by Yakov Okuniev in the Context of the Literary utopian tradition

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the novel The Coming World 1923-2123 by the Soviet fantasy writer Yakov Okuniev in the context of the tradition of literary utopia. Referring to the classic texts of Plato, More and Russian utopians, it has been shown that the world created by Okuniev has all the basic features of a typical utopia: symmetry and harmoniousness of architecture, lack of private property, equality before the law, and the cult of work. Although the citizens of the future world are ostensibly free, in practice they are tightly controlled and must act for the good of the collective. Such ideas appeared in socialist realist literature. Okuniev’s work can be treated as a communist utopia which praises the ideas promoted by the Bolsheviks. Okuniev believed in the possibility of making his project a reality, hoping to spread communist ideas throughout the world.

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