Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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About misogyny, unfortunately science fiction as a literary genre is as guilty as the rest of literature. I'll note it as part of the historical context.
Aside from that, there was something hopeful about visions of the future in the Soviet era, an optimism for technology and evolution of society. Maybe that was part of the official ideology, but I also see a similar kind of "retro-future" utopianism on the other side of the Iron Curtain. I think it was a general feeling in the 1950s to 60s, which gradually acknowledged the potential for dystopia.