The article analyzes the images of the future in the Bolshevik press during the Russian Civil War. The main source is the central newspaper of the Bolshevik government, “Truth”, from October 1917 to March 1921. Several models of images of the future that were broadcast in the newspaper during this time are distinguished. The image of the world revolution changed depending on the foreign policy situation, but did not completely disappear from the pages of “Truth”. By the early 1920s, the image of a “war on the peace front” became popular, switching readers attention to the fight against devastation in Soviet Russia. Readers were broadcast ideas about a happy future where there would be no oppression or evil, every citizen would have access to knowledge and the opportunity to find an occupation to their liking. It is concluded that all images of the future are interconnected, and their connection with the present, their partial embodiment in reality became one of the factors in the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Civil War.
Averyanov et al. (Tue,) studied this question.