Potemkin Village

About this film

LibriVox recording of Potemkin Village by Fletcher Pratt. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Tolstoia, a colony on Venus, is populated by followers of the 19th century Russian novelist, Count Leo Tolstoi. They have developed their own curious political system that deems itself a pacifist Utopia. Curiously, however, any inhabitants who try to leave end up committing suicide. Our small band of heros and heroines have been despatched to Tolstoia to determine whether they should be given the permission of the Intercolonial Office to colonize a nearby group of uninhabited islands. Their mission is to determine whether Tolstoia really is Utopia or merely a Potemkin Village, created to fool the rest of humankind. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (39MB)

Directors & creators

Fletcher Pratt

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Vénus; utopia; count leo tolstoy; tolstoism; potemkin village; interplanetary colonization

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