TY - BOOK AU - Seifrid, Thomas AB - 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. DO - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjhv ID - OAPEN ID: 641410 KW - Arts KW - Literary Criticism KW - Andrei Platonov KW - Collective farming KW - Joseph Stalin KW - Platonov (play) KW - Proletariat KW - Soviet Union KW - Utopia L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/cbf6868c-461f-4ccd-bf1b-75cecd258eb8/641410.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30932 PB - Academic Studies Press PP - Boston, MA PY - 2009-04-01 SN - 9781934843574;9781618116970;9781618119377 TI - A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit"null ER -