Red Star

A young man bearing the unusual conspiratorial name of Menni arrives in the city. He proposes that Leonid take part in a certain project…
“Red Star” is a utopian novel about Mars, one of the last classical utopias. The word “red” in the book’s title refers not only to the color of the Martian deserts, but also to the color of revolution and socialism.

Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov (1873—1928) was an outstanding Russian Soviet writer, economist, utopian philosopher, revolutionary, physician, encyclopedic scholar, and natural scientist. A member of the RSDLP since 1896. A close friend of V.I. Lenin, one of the major ideologists of socialism, a Bolshevik. His real surname was Malinovsky. A graduate of the medical faculty of Kharkiv University. A participant in the First World War. In 1926, he headed the world’s first Institute of Blood Transfusion and died in 1928 after an unsuccessful experiment on himself. In 1908, Bogdanov completed and published his best science-fiction work—the novel “Red Star,” which may be considered a forerunner of Soviet science fiction.