Abstract
This essay deals with the representation of the New Man in Soviet sf. The New Man is the ideal subject whose creation was one of the central goals of Soviet civilization. Soviet sf reflects the ideological paradox underlying his aborted birth: the New Man was supposed to come into being as the culmination of the historical process and, at the same time, to negate the contingency and violence of history. The article focuses on the articulation of this paradox in the canonical works of Ivan Efremov and the Strugatsky brothers and analyzes such aspects of the New Man as anthropomorphism, gender, violence, and relation to the Other.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 358-377 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Science-Fiction Studies |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2004 |
