The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

The second installment of Anton Vidokles trilogy on Russian cosmism The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky Shot in Kazakhstan where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled the film introduces Сhizhevskys research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology psychology politics and economics in the form of wars revolutions epidemics and other upheavals It aligns the life of postSoviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life