Authors
Rafaela Bozic1; 1 University of Zadar, Croatia Discussion
Not an analysis of all the novels that we can relate to Russian/soviet literary utopia and dystopia, this overview provides insight into the basic tendencies of such novels after the October Revolution. In literary utopias, man and his needs are most often the measure of things, and the image of an utopian future is also the vision of a nature subdued to the point that the need to eat and sleep have been subdued as well. Others, such as Chayanov, emphasize the importance of coexistence with nature and show a closeness to a vision, after the intense development of industry and agriculture, that we could also term the only sustainable one. On the other hand, writers who approached the possibilities of the development of an ideal society on the foundations of the society in which they lived, and who did so with greater criticism (Platonov and Zamyatin), openly see nature not only as an unconquerable force, but also as a force that is entirely impermissible to defeat and that should not be defeated. To them, and to us as well, nature is the eternal source of the future. 
