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Victoria E. Bonnell. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxi, 363 pp. $48.00.

Victoria E. Bonnell. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin.... gious and philosophical thinker. Here, Michael Hagemeister presents an ex- cellent article entitled, "Russian Cosmism in the 1920s and Today." He demonstrates how fantastic Fedorovian ideas dominated Soviet thought after the revolution. The early attempts at chan nelling "nervous energy" and using it to move objects by telekinesis, the research in long distance telepathy by the Leningrad physiologist Leonid Vasiliev (1891-1966), the work of biocosmists and parapsychologists s u c h a s Konstantin Tsiolkovskii, is shown by Hage- meister to be an outgrowth of the work of Fedorov. Later, other groups and leading individuals e m e r g e d from this "occult culture," such a s G e o r g e Gurdieff (1877-1949), Petr Uspenskii (1878-1947) and the recently discovered Daniil Andreev (1906-1959). Anthony Vanchu investigates this "psychic" streak even further in "Technology as Esoteric Cosmology." After the arrival of Stalinism there was, at least a s far a s a p p e a r a n c e s went, a shift away from all mysticism to Socialist Realism. However, a s Mikhail Agursky d e m o n - s t r a t e s in his article "An Occult http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Victoria E. Bonnell. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxi, 363 pp. $48.00.

Gorsuch, Anne E.; Kinsey, Melanie
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 33 (2-4): 411 – Jan 1, 1999
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gious and philosophical thinker. Here, Michael Hagemeister presents an ex- cellent article entitled, "Russian Cosmism in the 1920s and Today." He demonstrates how fantastic Fedorovian ideas dominated Soviet thought after the revolution. The early attempts at chan nelling "nervous energy" and using it to move objects by telekinesis, the research in long distance telepathy by the Leningrad physiologist Leonid Vasiliev (1891-1966), the work of biocosmists and parapsychologists s u c h a s Konstantin Tsiolkovskii, is shown by Hage- meister to be an outgrowth of the work of Fedorov. Later, other groups and leading individuals e m e r g e d from this "occult culture," such a s G e o r g e Gurdieff (1877-1949), Petr Uspenskii (1878-1947) and the recently discovered Daniil Andreev (1906-1959). Anthony Vanchu investigates this "psychic" streak even further in "Technology as Esoteric Cosmology." After the arrival of Stalinism there was, at least a s far a s a p p e a r a n c e s went, a shift away from all mysticism to Socialist Realism. However, a s Mikhail Agursky d e m o n - s t r a t e s in his article "An Occult

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