Christina Lodder is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. Her publications include Russian Constructivism (1983), Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo (with Martin Hammer, 2000), Gabo on Gabo (co-editor, 2000), Constructive Strands in Russian Art (2005) and Rethinking Malevich (co-editor, 2007). Maria Kokkori is a research fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with a focus on Russian Constructivism. Her latest research project explores Kazimir Malevich’s teaching activities at the Vitebsk Art School in Belarus between 1919 and 1923. Maria Mileeva is an Early Career Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her PhD in 2011. Her latest research project explores the discourse of centre and periphery in Soviet cultural and institutional history by looking at a network of regional art museums in Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku, Kiev, Saratov and Kazan.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Utopia and Dystopia: The Impulse of History Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva1.Dreaming of the City: Mikhail Larionov’s Provincial DandyJohn Milner2.Utopic Sex: The Metamorphosis of Androgynous Imagery in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russian ArtNatalia Budanova3.The Soviet Icarus: From the Dream of Free Flight to the Nightmare of Free FallMaria TsantsanoglouII4.Theo van Doesburg and Russia: Utopia ThwartedNicholas de Mesquita5.Fighting for a Utopian Childhood: Militarism in Children’s Periodicals of the Early USSRMaria Starkova-Vindmann6.Spectral Geographies of Soviet Russia: Émigré Visions of Impossible ReturnsMuireann Maguire7.Twice removed: Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-PutilovskiiNicoletta Misler8.Exhibiting Kazimir Malevich under StalinMaria Kokkori9.The Old and the New: Solomon Nikritin and PolyrealizmJohn E. Bowlt10.The Ghost in the Machine: The Modernist Architectural Utopia under StalinChristina Lodder11.Petrified Utopia: Socialist Realism and StasisEvgeny Dobrenko 12.Utopia in Retreat: The Closure of the State Museum of New Western Art, 1948Maria MileevaIII13.The Body Electric: Cybernetics in East European Art in the 1960s Eastern BlocDavid Crowley14.Geometry after UtopiaBrandon TaylorNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Christina Lodder is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. Her publications include Russian Constructivism (1983), Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo (with Martin Hammer, 2000), Gabo on Gabo (co-editor, 2000), Constructive Strands in Russian Art (2005) and Rethinking Malevich (co-editor, 2007). Maria Kokkori is a research fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with a focus on Russian Constructivism. Her latest research project explores Kazimir Malevich’s teaching activities at the Vitebsk Art School in Belarus between 1919 and 1923. Maria Mileeva is an Early Career Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her PhD in 2011. Her latest research project explores the discourse of centre and periphery in Soviet cultural and institutional history by looking at a network of regional art museums in Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku, Kiev, Saratov and Kazan.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Utopia and Dystopia: The Impulse of History Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva1.Dreaming of the City: Mikhail Larionov’s Provincial DandyJohn Milner2.Utopic Sex: The Metamorphosis of Androgynous Imagery in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russian ArtNatalia Budanova3.The Soviet Icarus: From the Dream of Free Flight to the Nightmare of Free FallMaria TsantsanoglouII4.Theo van Doesburg and Russia: Utopia ThwartedNicholas de Mesquita5.Fighting for a Utopian Childhood: Militarism in Children’s Periodicals of the Early USSRMaria Starkova-Vindmann6.Spectral Geographies of Soviet Russia: Émigré Visions of Impossible ReturnsMuireann Maguire7.Twice removed: Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-PutilovskiiNicoletta Misler8.Exhibiting Kazimir Malevich under StalinMaria Kokkori9.The Old and the New: Solomon Nikritin and PolyrealizmJohn E. Bowlt10.The Ghost in the Machine: The Modernist Architectural Utopia under StalinChristina Lodder11.Petrified Utopia: Socialist Realism and StasisEvgeny Dobrenko 12.Utopia in Retreat: The Closure of the State Museum of New Western Art, 1948Maria MileevaIII13.The Body Electric: Cybernetics in East European Art in the 1960s Eastern BlocDavid Crowley14.Geometry after UtopiaBrandon TaylorNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Christina Lodder is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. Her publications include Russian Constructivism (1983), Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo (with Martin Hammer, 2000), Gabo on Gabo (co-editor, 2000), Constructive Strands in Russian Art (2005) and Rethinking Malevich (co-editor, 2007). Maria Kokkori is a research fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with a focus on Russian Constructivism. Her latest research project explores Kazimir Malevich’s teaching activities at the Vitebsk Art School in Belarus between 1919 and 1923. Maria Mileeva is an Early Career Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her PhD in 2011. Her latest research project explores the discourse of centre and periphery in Soviet cultural and institutional history by looking at a network of regional art museums in Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku, Kiev, Saratov and Kazan.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Utopia and Dystopia: The Impulse of History Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva1.Dreaming of the City: Mikhail Larionov’s Provincial DandyJohn Milner2.Utopic Sex: The Metamorphosis of Androgynous Imagery in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russian ArtNatalia Budanova3.The Soviet Icarus: From the Dream of Free Flight to the Nightmare of Free FallMaria TsantsanoglouII4.Theo van Doesburg and Russia: Utopia ThwartedNicholas de Mesquita5.Fighting for a Utopian Childhood: Militarism in Children’s Periodicals of the Early USSRMaria Starkova-Vindmann6.Spectral Geographies of Soviet Russia: Émigré Visions of Impossible ReturnsMuireann Maguire7.Twice removed: Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-PutilovskiiNicoletta Misler8.Exhibiting Kazimir Malevich under StalinMaria Kokkori9.The Old and the New: Solomon Nikritin and PolyrealizmJohn E. Bowlt10.The Ghost in the Machine: The Modernist Architectural Utopia under StalinChristina Lodder11.Petrified Utopia: Socialist Realism and StasisEvgeny Dobrenko 12.Utopia in Retreat: The Closure of the State Museum of New Western Art, 1948Maria MileevaIII13.The Body Electric: Cybernetics in East European Art in the 1960s Eastern BlocDavid Crowley14.Geometry after UtopiaBrandon TaylorNotes on the ContributorsIndex