The battle for the future at the intersection of utopias

The article focuses on consideration the alternative scenarios of the future related to the beginning of “the most utopian decade of Soviet history” (С. Clark). The critical review is based on materials from the ideological heritage of Vladimir Lenin, Alexander Bogdanov, Aleksei Gastev and Alexander Chayanov. The presented scenarios of the future which were considered as scientific and realistic by the thinkers are appeared as an official, technocratic and peasant utopia in the author's interpretation. Not only original, but common features of the future scenarios like “fascination with technology”, authoritarianism, etc., are found in the examined texts by comparative analysis.