«Stalin conducted a ‘“fantasectomy” of the imagination, banning futurological art and literature in part because science fiction had been a vehicle for expressing early doubts about the possibility of utopia. […] To exorcise the ghosts of Stalinist irrationalism and violence, post-Soviet authorities turned to science, technology and other ‘rational’ measures of modernisation. The Scientific Technological Revolution announced by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin in July 1956 was, for instance, a programme intended to shape a new Soviet consciousness.»
David Crowley, Faktografia, 2011