Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-1940 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

The astonishingly diverse range of writing and artwork brought together in this anthology captures a sense of an age when Russia was bristling with visions of the future. These visions were alternately glorious and terrifying. Much of the literature which flourished during the Soviet modernist era concerned itself with that perennial question: how will the future be? While battling with this great unknown, writers sought inspiration in childhood memories, explored new sexual options and turned traditional assumptions about men and women on their head. The result alternates between baldly realistic and boldly experimental writing.

Catriona Kelly teaches Russian at New College, Oxford. Her previous books have been published by CUP and OUP.