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All credit to Dr Farrell who initially introduced us to Cosmism.

Cosmism: Russia’s religion for the rocket age

“Tolstoy and Fyodorov shared a similar creed, driven by a fierce resistance to war. Fyodorov lamented that, while the poor remained at the mercy of droughts and floods, universities had become nothing more than “the backyards of factories and army barracks, that is, serving industrialism and militarism”. Both men wished to divert war’s destructive energies into ecological renewal (“A civilization that exploits, but does not restore, cannot have any other result than the approach of its own end,” wrote Fyodorov). Like Tolstoy, he opposed the idea of books as private property. When his few written works were compiled for publication posthumously, they were accompanied with sticker stating: “Not for Sale”.”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210426-how-the-space-race-changed-soviet-art