A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History

A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History

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Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it pr...

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Main Author: Seifrid, Thomas (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2009
Series:Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Subjects:
Literature: history & criticism
Arts
Literary Criticism
Andrei Platonov
Collective farming
Joseph Stalin
Platonov (play)
Proletariat
Soviet Union
Utopia
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Summary:Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.
ISBN:j.ctt1zxsjhv
9781934843574;9781618116970;9781618119377
Access:Open Access

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