Editing Utopian and dystopian fiction (section)

==Cultural impact==
[[Étienne Cabet]]'s work ''[[Voyage en Icarie|Travels in Icaria]]'' caused a group of followers, the [[Icarians]], to leave France in 1848, and travel to the United States to start a series of utopian settlements in Texas, Illinois, Iowa, California, and elsewhere. These groups lived in communal settings and lasted until 1898.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tyboomakbook.org/download.php?title=travels%20in%20icaria%20utopianism%20and%20communitarianism%20paperback%20.pdf|title=Travels In Icaria Utopianism And Communitarianism Paperback|website=tyboomakbook.org|language=EN|access-date=2018-11-15}}</ref>

During the first decades of the 20th centur, utopian science fiction literature was very popular in Russia due to more citizens wanting to engage with fantasies of the future (as well as the fact that it was a new, up-and-coming genre of literature).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Refail|first=Nudelman|date=1989|title=Soviet Science Fiction and the Ideology of Soviet Society|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239917|journal=Science Fiction Studies|volume=16|pages=38–66|doi=10.1525/sfs.16.1.038 |jstor=4239917}}</ref> During the [[Cold War]], utopian science fiction became popular among Soviet leaders. As well, many Soviet Union citizens became dependent on this type of literature because it provided an escape from the real world, which was not ideal at the time. Utopian science fiction allowed readers to fantasize about how it would be to live in a "perfect" world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kleberg |first=Lars |date=1984 |title=Utopia and Its Negations: Literary Utopia in Russia Before the Revolution |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24652740 |journal=Russian History |volume=11 |issue=2/3 |pages=209–219 |doi=10.1163/18763316-i0000011 |jstor=24652740 |issn=0094-288X}}</ref>