A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit

by Thomas Seifrid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934843571
• ISBN13: 9781934843574
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"