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This article considers the sub-genre of social science fiction focused on development of societies, generally dominated by totalitarian governments, It often refers to fiction written in reaction to communist rule. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Social science fiction is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with gadgets and space opera and more with speculation about human society. ... Social science fiction is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with gadgets and space opera and more with speculation about human society. ... Totalitarianism is a typology employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Fiction of this kind was very popular during the Cold War as a satire of the communist rule, on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The first book criticising communism was probably We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1921. The most famous Western social dystopias alluding to the Soviet Union (Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal farm, Huxley's Brave New World) were written in 1930s and 1940s. For the generic term for a high-tension struggle between countries, see cold war (war). ... In the summer of 1989, the foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary, Alois Mock and Gyula Horn, ceremonially cut through the border defences separating their countries. ... We (Мы, 1920; English translation 1924) is a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. ... Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand... This article is about the philosophical concept. ... Orwell (or Orwellian) can refer to: The writer Eric Blairs pen name, George Orwell and his books The River Orwell in Suffolk, England The village of Orwell in Cambridgeshire, England A number of places in the United States: Orwell Township, Minnesota Orwell, New York Orwell, Ohio Orwell Township, Pennsylvania... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Animal Farm book cover Animal Farm is a satirical novel (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm they live on and run it themselves, only to have it corrupted into... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. ... Book cover of Brave New World. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ...

One can mention Evgeny Shvarts's The Dragon (1944), the play about attempt of the hero — Lancelot — to liberate people in a land from the Dragon's severe rule. But his efforts were in vain, since most of the people have adopted the Dragon and considered his methods though being brutal to be the only possible. As the Dragon said to the hero, My dear man, I crippled them myself. Crippled them exactly as required. You see, the human soul is very resilient. Cut the body in half — and the man croaks. But tear the soul apart — and it only becomes more pliable, that's all. Killing the Dragon neither freed the people nor sufficiently changed their lives, resulting mostly in the change of their ruler. When Lancelot returned in the town the next year, he realized: This is going to be a very meticulous job... We have to kill the dragon in each one of them.

In Poland the genre was most common in the 1980s among Polish science fiction writers like Janusz A. Zajdel (Limes Inferior, Paradyzja) or Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (Apostezjon trilogy), who named it fantastyka sociologiczna (or social speculative fiction). Polish books from that genre are based in different times (usually in future) and usually are pretext for analysing structures of the described (mostly totalitarian) societies, also they are usually full of allusions to reality. The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (August 15, 1938 – July 19, 1985) was a Polish science fiction author born in Warsaw. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

In this context two books of Strugatsky (known Soviet/Russian social science fiction writers), both written in 1960s should be mentioned. That is Inhabited Island (in which the action takes place in an industrial totalitarian Land of Fathers, where aborigenals' ability of critical mind was suppressed by a global grid of radiating towers), and Hard to be a God (in the alien world passing the phase of Middle-Age, in the common greyness of middle-age society the Church suddenly arises, crushing and murdering scientists, inventors and poets — this forms the "landscape" at which an observer/progressor Rumata lives, fighting for the "people of knowledge" and naively believing that the Communard in the core of his soul will survive under the pressure of his work). Boris and Arkady Strugatsky The two brothers Arkady (Арка́дий, August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991) and Boris (Бори́с, born April 14, 1933) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spelling: Strugatski) are Russian science fiction... Social science fiction is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with gadgets and space opera and more with speculation about human society. ... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Inhabited Island (a. ... Bold text This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... Progressors in sci-fi literature are people (or other sentient beings) of an advanced space-faring civilization who progress less technologically advanced civilizations and races, i. ...

After the fall of communism in Europe the genre became less popular. Communism refers to a theoretical system of social organization and a political movement based on common ownership of the means of production. ...

See also

• Utopia
• Dystopia
• Science fiction
  • Soft science fiction
  • Libertarian science fiction
• List of social fiction writers and stories
• Fable

Utopian, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better, or perhaps perfect society. ... This article is about the philosophical concept. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Soft science fiction or soft SF is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on human feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws. ... Libertarian science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that focuses on the politics and social order implied by libertarian philosophies with an emphasis on individualism and a limited state-- and in some cases, no state whatsoever: (see: Anarcho-capitalist literature) As a category, libertarian science fiction is unusual... This is a list of social fiction writers with their most well-known piece. ... In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. ...

External links

• Read The Dragon (or here). Also to be noted is the movie "To kill the Dragon" (the filming of the play which was shot in 1988).