History · Boston College
Previously titled Socialist Techno-Utopias In the decades following the Russian Revolution, the Soviet state attempted to transform human society and the human species to bring about utopia. Soviet and other socialist scientists carried out numerous experiments in visionary biology, studying reproduction, immunity, and heredity in order to build proletarian new men and women; others sought to breed tame foxes, grow crops in winter, or explore the cosmos. This course explores socialist utopian visions through the social and cultural history of the experiments and their ideological and geopoliti
