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Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

Jay Murray Winter

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In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century’s “minor utopias” whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past.

The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 , 1919 , 1937 , 1948 , 1968 , and 1992 . Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: October 02, 2006

ISBN: 0300106653

ISBN 13: 9780300106657

Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

Jay Murray Winter

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century’s “minor utopias” whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past.

The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 , 1919 , 1937 , 1948 , 1968 , and 1992 . Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: October 02, 2006

ISBN: 0300106653

ISBN 13: 9780300106657

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