About Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism which was not in line with the dominant socialist realism doctrine. His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit (1930), Soul (1935) and Chevengur (1928). Between 1926 and 1930, the period from NEP to the first five-year plan (1928–1932), Platonov produced his two major works, the novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit. Asteroid 3620 Platonov discovered in 1981 by Soviet astronomer L. Moving to Moscow in 1927, he became, for the first time, a professional writer, working with a number of leading magazines. A censored text was first published in 1966; a complete, uncensored text only in 1999.
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