Red Star (novel)

Cover of the 1908 edition.

Red Star (Russian: Красная звезда, romanized: Krasnaya zvezda) is a science fiction novel by Russian writer Alexander Bogdanov, published in 1908, about a communist society on Mars.[1] The first edition was published in St. Petersburg in 1908, before eventually being republished in Moscow and Petrograd in 1918, and then again in Moscow in 1922. Set in early Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and additionally on a fictional socialist society on Mars, the novel tells the story of Leonid, a Russian scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system and to teach them of his own world. In the process, he becomes enamored of the people and technological efficiency that he encounters in this new world.[2] An English translation by Charles Rougle was published in 1984.

  1. ^ Możejko, Edward (December 1985). "Reviewed Work: Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 27 (4): 461–462. JSTOR 40868523. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Gerould, Daniel (July 1987). "Review: Alexander Bogdanov, Founder of Soviet Science Fiction". Science Fiction Studies. 14 (2): 271–274. JSTOR 4239824. (subscription required)