LC 272 Perpetual Future:
Utopian Ideas in Russian and German Culture (IT)
 
 

Materials on Reserve - Spring 2007

Articles on E-Reserve

Bebel, August "Women of the Future" and Supplement

Films on Reserve

Films -
"Aelita." Dir. Yakov Protazanov (Soviet Union, 1924)
"Metropolis." Dir. Fritz Lang (Ufa, 1923)
"Solyaris." Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. (Mosfilm, 1972)
"Goodbye Lenin" Dir. Wolfgang Becker (Bavaria Film, 2003)
"1984"
"Downfall"

Useful books on Utopia in Ames Library
 

Ames Library -
Clute, J. Science Fiction, the Illustrated Encyclopedia. REF PN3433.4 .C57
1995

Erasmus, Charles. In Search of the Common Good. Utopian Experiments Past and
Future. HX806.L48 1990

Finzsch & Wellenreuther. Visions of the Future in Germany and America HX806 .V57 2001

Levitas, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia HX806.E65

Laider, Harry W. Social-economic Movements HX21.L37

Richter, Peyton, ed. Utopias: Social Ideals and Communal Experiments.
HX806.R52

Schaer, Roland, ed. and others. Utopia. The Search for the Ideal Society in
the Western World. HX 806 .U7918 2000

Stites, Richard. Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life
in the Russian Revolution. DK 266.4 .S75 1991

Suggested Reading:

Christie, Ian. "Down to Earth: Aelita relocated." in Inside the Film Factory. Ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie. London; New York: Routledge, 1991. 80-102.

Fetzer, Leland, ed and trans. Pre-Revolutionary Russian Science Fiction: An Anthology. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1982.

"The Great Russian Utopia." Art and Design Magazine 29 (1993). Not in Ames - must get through ILL.

Gutkin, Irina. "The Legacy of the Symbolist Aesthetic Utopia: From Futurism to Socialist Realism." in Creating Life. The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism. Eds. Irina Paperno and Joan Delaney Grossman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 167-198.

Rosenberg, William, ed. Russian and Soviet History 1500-1991. Social and Cultural History of the Soviet Union: The Lenin and Stalin Years. New York; London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

Shlapentokh, Dmitry and Vladimir. Soviet Cinematrography 1918-1991. Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993.

Sochor, Zenovia A. Revolution and Culture. The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Stites, Richard. "Fantasy and Revolution. Alexander Bogdanov and the origins of Bolshevik Science Fiction." in Alexander Bogdanov. Red Star. Ed. Loren Graham and Richard Stites. Trans. Charles Rougle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. 1-16.

"The Utopian Dream. Photography in Soviet Russia. 1918-1939." Catalog for an Exhibition of Selected Works in the Laurence Miller Gallery. Los Angeles: Schickler/Lafaille, 1992.