The Utopians - Anna Neima
The Utopians - Anna Neima 'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Rabindranath Tagore, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, Mushanokoji Saneatsu, G. I. Few books manage to be so informative and so…
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The Utopians - Anna Neima
'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Rabindranath Tagore, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, Mushanokoji Saneatsu, G. I. Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.'Sunday TimesThe Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities - Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America - that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War.Each was led by charismatic figures who dreamed of a new way of living.
They - and their fellow communards - left their jobs, their homes and their social circles. Gurdjieff, Eberhard and Emmy Arnold and Gerald Heard all struggled to turn ambitious ideals into reality. They faced mockery and persecution, penury,