Soviet / Russian utopias

[BB779]

I'm researching a topic on utopias, and I'm curious about Soviet utopias in fiction. Does anyone know anything about utopian / dystopian literature written in the USSR during the Soviet regime that spanned the Cold War?

Or any idea about Soviet / Russian utopian literature in general?

Thanks.

[JBI]

No idea, but the Chinese equivalent is a book called The Golden Road by Hao Ran. I warn you though, it is quite long.

[Aylinn]

Try Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's books. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich.

[NedSiegel]

I know this doesn't answer your question exactly, as you ask for works written in the Soviet Union, but Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a dystopian novel that is based on the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. It was banned in the USSR which is no surprise, but even Orwell's first publisher rejected it after receiving a warning from the British (!) Ministry of Information. Apparently they feared it would upset the Soviet Union too much.

[Eiseabhal]

Just about anything written by the socialist realist sycophants of the members of The Union of Soviet Writers could be considered as utopian since most of their work is shoddy propaganda aimed at creating the idea that all these freezing alchy f@&£wits were already living the dream or were on their way to it. Particularly nauseous were those gigolos of talent Fadeyev,Sholokov, Tolstoy (not Leo)