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 
issue 12 June 2021
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