Russian and East European Science Fiction

Founded in 1975, The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) is an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.

Explore stories, places, and the people of the Amana Colonies - an American Utopia. First founded in Germany in 1714, the Community of True Inspiration made east-central Iowa their home in 1855. The Inspirationists founded seven villages near the Iowa River and practiced a fully communal lifestyle until 1932.

An online exhibit introducing American utopias—from the first Puritan settlements to the communes of the 1960s—through literary works and manuscript collections in the Beinecke Library.