Revolutionary Dreams

Winner of the 1990 Vucinich Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

The study takes a wide view of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate the spirit of idealism and experimentation before, during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917.This book discusses utopian ideals and experimentation before, during, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Richard Stites grounds his study in the larger field of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate the vast tableau of revolutionary life. Above all, he reveals how people expressed revolutionary sentiment through myth, ritual, symbol, cult, and community.