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dlexander l)ogtlanov RED R 1 ( REDSTdR Soviet History, Politics, Society, and Thought James Michael Holquist and Alexander Rabinowitch, general editors ADVISORY BOARD Katerina Clark Gail W. Lapidus Stephen F. Cohen Moshe Lewin Murray Feshbach Sidney Monas Loren Graham S. Frederick Starr REDSTdR Toe first l)olsoevil) Utopia alexander l)ogdanov Red Star Engineer Menni A Martian Stranded on Earth EDITED BY Loren R. Graham and Richard Stites TRANSLATED BY Charles Rougle INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders bye-mail [email protected] © 1984 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any fonn or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any infonnation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Pennissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Infonnation Sciences--Pennanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Cataloging infonnation is available from the Library of Congress. IJbrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928. Red star. (Soviet history, politics, society, and thought) Contents: Red star-Engineer Menni-Martian stranded on Earth. 1. Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928-Translations, English. I. Graham, Loren R. II. Stites, Richard. III. Rougle, Charles, 1946- IV. Title. V. Series. PG3467.M29A27 1984 897.1'33 83-48637 ISBN 978-0-253-17350-8 ISBN 978-0-253-20317-5 (pbk.) 5 6 789 12 11 10 09 08 07 CONTENTS Preface ix Fantasy and Revolution: Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Bolshevik Science Fiction I Richard Stites 1 RED STAR: A Utopia 17 ENGINEER MENNI: A Novel of Fantasy 141 A MARTIAN STRANDED ON EARTH: A Poem 235 Bogdanov's Inner Message I Loren R. Graham 241 Selected Bibliography 255 Preface The 6rst edition of Red Star appeared in st. Petersburg in 19oB. It was reissued in Petrograd and in Moscow in 1918, and again in Moscow in 1~~. ~tage version was produced by Proletcult theater in 1920. In 1~, after Bogdanovs death, it was pubUshed 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 ver sion in the collection The Eternal Sun: RwBlon Social Utopia and Science Fiction. It appeared in a German translation in 1~3, and this was re printed in 197~. An E'l)eranto edition came out in Leipzig in 1~, celebrating, no doubt, the Esperantists' admiration of uniUngual utopias. The 6~nglish translation recently appeared in Pre-Revolutionary Rus lion Science Fiction: An Anthology (1g8~), edited by Leland Fetzer. There were at least six editions of Engineer Menn; between 1913 and 19~3, and it was reissued also by Around the World in 1~. The present translations are of the original 19oB and 1913 editions. Chronologically, Engineer Mennl comes 6rst as a historical novel about the social revolu tion on Mars long before Leonid's voyage of 1905-06. We have placed Red Star first, however, because it was written first and because this order makes for better reading. As a writer, Bogdanov was no master of style, and so we have given preference to clarity over literalness of trans lation, without omitting or violating anything essential. For the Martian place names, we have used the standard classical tenninology still em ployed by astronomers (and used by Bogdanov in Russian translation). The illustrations for Red Star are taken from the 1~3 Moscow edition. The editors and translator wish to thank the follOwing people for reading and commenting on our work: in Philadelphia, Mark Adams; in New York, Abraham Ascher and Kenneth Jensen; in Leeds, Moira Donald; in Washington, D.C., Murray Feshbach; in Helsinki, Ben HeU man, Eugene Holman, Pekka Pesonen, and I1mari Susiluoto; in Thrku, Kurt Johansson; in Berkeley, Louise McReynolds; in Freiburg, Thomas Markowsky; in Montreal, Darko SUvin. Charles RougJe and Richard Stites thank each other for what Bogdanov would have called our "com- x RED STAR radely exchange of labor" in Helsinki in the summer of 1982. Loren Graham and Richard Stites thank each other for joining together our once independent projects. We all thank Janet Rabinowitch of Indiana Univer sity Press for her stubborn faith in our work. REDSTdR
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