Abstract
ABSTRACTThis necessarily speculative as well as historically grounded essay examines two key works in the Russian-language literature, Alexander Bogdanov's Red Star (1908. Krasnaia Zvesda: utopia. St. Petersburg: Tovarishchestvo khudozhnikov pechati) and Arkady and Boris Strugatskys’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965. Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu: Skazka dlia nauchnykh rabotnikov mladshego vozrasta. Moskva: Detskaia literatura) for insights into their respective pre-revolutionary and Soviet imaginaries of the relationship between data, statistics, and society. It is argued that each work reveals their own peculiar science fantasy and speculative future rooted in the present, with special comment on the historiographical role of data in shaping the twentieth-century visions of labor and work.
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