Guy Stagg

The difficulty of building heaven on Earth: why utopias usually fail

Anna Neima looks at six idealistic communities established in the 20th century whose visionary founders tended to be quite unsuited to the shared life

Ghandi and Tagore photographed at Santiniketan Sriniketan. Credit: Alamy
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  • The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

    Anna Neima

    Picador, pp. 320, £25

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