The American Utopia

Eduard Batalov

CONTENTS

Foreword   ………...4

Chapter I. The American Utopia and the American Dream ......………  7

  1. The Social Utopia: Genesis, Essence, Forms   ………............. 7

  2. Utopia's Main Functions .....…….  18

  3. The Emergence of the Utopian Tradition in the United States   ………..32

  4. The American Dream: Utopia or Myth? ..........……  46

Chapter II. American Utopia in the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Centuries   ………..52

  1. Official and Folk Utopias .……  52

  2. The Utopia of a Farmers' America   …................. . 70

  3. The Romantic Utopia ……….84

  4. The Socialist Utopia ……….90

  5. The Technocratic Utopia ...............…  102

Chapter III. The Evolution of U.S. Capitalism and the Modern American Utopia   ………110

  1. The Contradictions of American Society and the Utopian Tradition in the United States   …................. 110

  2. The Technocratic Utopia ................…  122

  3. The Utopia of a "Traditional" America .............…  132

  4. The Romantic Utopia .................…  137

  5. The Democratic Utopia ................…  146

  6. The Socialist Tradition in Modern Utopia .....…  151

  7. The Official and the Folk Utopias in Today's America   ………160

Chapter IV. From Utopia to Antiutopia .........…  170

  1. The Negative Utopia from Donnelly to Lewis   …................. 170

  2. "Disillusionment with Progress" and Conflicting Attitudes to Utopia ……….181

Chapter V. The Living Utopia   ……….195

  1. The Emergence of the Utopian Communitarian Tradition in the United States ……  195

  2. From New Harmony to Icaria   ……............. 198

  3. Utopian Freedom and Historical Necessity ........……  209

  4. New Utopian Experiments ....……  217

Conclusion   ………..229

Name Index .................................……………………………………………….   233

SOURCE: Batalov, Eduard. The American Utopia, translated from the Russian by Dmitry Belyavsky. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985.

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