{"id":97285,"date":"2026-01-07T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97285"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:59:25","slug":"red-star-the-dawn-of-soviet-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/red-star-the-dawn-of-soviet-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Red Star<\/em>: The Dawn of Soviet Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODke7nHTYcI?si=iw6Wzj5lIavujc6_\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 15 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Soviet science fiction is a long winding road and it starts with Alexander Bogdanov&#8217;s <em>Red Star<\/em>. Let&#8217;s start down that road. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:15 Introducing Martian Socialism<br \/>\n06:35 Tektology<br \/>\n10:03 Crafting Communism<br \/>\n15:08 Mars Has Problems<br \/>\n19:06 Old Man of the Mountain<br \/>\n20:32 The Engineer Menni<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 New Merch!  | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\nObligatory plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and now on Kobo kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/ninti-s-gate?sId=f30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 15 Aug 2025 Soviet science fiction is a long winding road and it starts with Alexander Bogdanov&#8217;s Red Star. Let&#8217;s start down that road. 00:00 Intro 03:15 Introducing Martian Socialism 06:35 Tektology 10:03 Crafting Communism 15:08 Mars Has Problems 19:06 Old Man of the Mountain 20:32 The Engineer Menni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,28,1119],"tags":[780,1593,622,1076,1108,342,122,85,433],"class_list":["post-97285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media","category-russia","tag-communism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-ideology","tag-karlmarx","tag-lenin","tag-mars","tag-movies","tag-sf","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pj7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97286,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285\/revisions\/97286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}