دانلود کتاب Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia

Famous pre-revolutionary Russian scifi novel. Written by a leading Bolshevik activist in the aftermath of the failed revolution in 1905. It was a miserable time when, for example, many disillusioned comrades committed suicide - hence the morbid obsession with suicide in the novel.The plot: Socialism has been achieved on Mars and a socialist from Earth is transported there in a spaceship to learn all about it. But what is the Martian attitude towards Earth? Are the Earthlings too backward to be worth saving from capitalism?Even if you don't think this is the greatest early 20th century sci-fi novel, and it isn't - others were much better written - it's got to be worth reading from a historical point of view! And the political background to it is well worth checking out too. Bogdanov's vision of socialism was clearly very different from that of Lenin and the other Bolshevik leaders.The first edition of Red Star appeared in St. Petersburg in 1908. It was reissued in Petrograd and in Moscow in 1918, and again in Moscow in 1922. A stage version was produced by Proletcult theater in 1920. In 1928, after Bogdanov’s death, it was published as a supplement to Around the World. It was not again reissued in the Soviet Union for almost fifty years, until 1979, when it was anthologized in a slightly expurgated version in the collection The Eternal Sun: Russian Social Utopia and Science Fiction. It appeared in a German translation in 1923, and this was reprinted in 1972. An Esperanto edition came out in Leipzig in 1929, celebrating, no doubt, the Esperantists’ admiration of unilingual utopias. The first English translation recently appeared in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Science Fiction: An Anthology (1982), edited by Leland Fetzer.This edition contains not just the (unexpurgated) "Red Star" but also the (almost as long) novel "Engineer Menni",a kind of "prequel" to Red star explaining the beginnings of Martian socialism. There is also a poem called "A Martian Stranded on Earth".