Andrei Platonov: Utopia, Dystopia, and Community
John Riser, Florida Gulf Coast University Introduction While this essay recapitulates various well-known events and works in the development of Andrei Platonov’s views from utopian communism through disillusioned cynicism to what I will characterize as humanistic communalism, my primary objective is to present a positive assessment of Platonov’s resultant philosophy of life as accessible, relevant […]