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>setting is generally pessimistic or at best pragmatic
>or just killpeopleists like Omsk
>visionaries are explicitly optimistic about the future
>(old) writing showed Zhdanov as so dedicated to the cause that he doesn't even consider the 'economic realities' so he's a true believer
>rebuilding a broken state into one that's trying to reach a sort of utopia
There's a lot of reasons. It's just good old 50s and 60s science fiction's themes as a state.