Life and Technology of the Future (Russian: Жизнь и техника будущего) was an anthology of Utopian mataerial published in the Soviet Union in 1928.
| Original title | Жизнь и техника будущего |
|---|---|
| Language | Russian |
| Publisher | Moskvskiy rabochiy |
Publication date | 1928 |
The first part consisted of translations and reprints from Plato, Thomas Campanella, Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, Etienne Cabet, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier and Alexander Bogdanov.[1]
The second part consisted of contemporaneous articles by:[1]
- Boris Lobach-Zhuchenko, marine engineer, arrested in July 1927, released 1933 and died of natural causes 1938.
- Pavel Blokhin
- Alexander Chayanov, an agrarian economist, subsequently arrested first in 1930.
- Aleksandr Yakovlevich Orlov, astronomer contributed “Astronomic Utopias” in which he discussed the potential living on Mars and the Moon and provided a sketch of what he thought an engine for interplanetary travel might look like.
- Aron Zalkind (1888–1936), a psychologist. He was accused of "Menshevist-idealistic eclecticism" in 1931. He was later obliged to recant his Freudian views.
References edit
- ^ a b Popova, Polina. "Zhizn' i tekhnika budushego: Social Utopian Imagination of the 1920s and the Soviet Science". Retrieved 14 January 2019.