Assignation in Utopia
Nostalgia and the Love Market
“Stop!” 1926 Soviet anti-prostitution poster.
The American journalist Eugene Lyons, a communist fellow traveler who grew disillusioned with the Marxist project while living in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, wrote in his highly readable 1937 memoir Assignment in Utopia of his joy upon arriving in the Workers’ Paradise:
The red stars, with their insignia of…
