Mitrofanova A.V. Religio-Political Utopia by Iana Zavatskaia. In: The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia: Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Modern Russia. Ed.by Mikhail Suslov and Per-Arne Bodin. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. P. 155-174.

Abstract

The chapter is dedicated to Yana Zavatskaia, who authors a series of novels describing, in the context of Catholic liberation theology, the attempts to build communist society based on Christian values. Christianity and communism overlap discussing the concept of a new person needed to achieve a desirable future. Initially Zavatskaia constructs a mobilization theocratic society governed by monastic orders, but it predictably collapses because most people are not ready to sacrifice their private interests for the supreme religious ideals. Instead, a society emerges where attention is paid not so much to sociopolitical institutions, but to making a new person that feels good only in a communist Christian society. The chapter follows the evolution of Zavatskaia's beliefs as reflected in her novels.

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