Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur,” written in the late 1920s and published in 1988, depicts a Communist utopia. But in our time, the novel no longer reads merely as an ambiguous testament to a vanished Soviet past, Benjamin Kunkel writes. How an Enthusiast of Soviet Socialism Fell Afoul of the Authorities Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur” depicts a Communist utopia.

 

Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur,” written in the late 1920s and published in 1988, depicts a Communist utopia. But in our time, the novel no longer reads merely as an ambiguous testament to a vanished Soviet past, Benjamin Kunkel writes.

How an Enthusiast of Soviet Socialism Fell Afoul of the Authorities

Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur” depicts a Communist utopia, but Sta