The Foundation Pit
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The Foundation Pit is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Andrei Platonov that satirically depicts the human and social costs of early Soviet collectivization and utopian ideology.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dystopian novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| approximateYearWritten |
1930
ⓘ
1931 ⓘ |
| author | Andrei Platonov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | suppressed in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| centralSymbol | foundation pit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| criticalOf |
Soviet collectivization
ⓘ
Stalinist policies ⓘ totalitarian ideology ⓘ |
| depicts |
forced labor
ⓘ
human cost of collectivization ⓘ ideological fanaticism ⓘ peasant dispossession ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Voshchev
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
workers digging a foundation pit ⓘ |
| firstFullPublicationCountry | abroad GENERATED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance |
key text of Soviet dystopian fiction
ⓘ
major work of 20th-century Russian literature ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Voshchev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Soviet political climate of the 1930s ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
experimental prose
ⓘ
philosophical allegory ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Soviet literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
bureaucracy
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collectivization ⓘ dehumanization ⓘ failure of utopian projects ⓘ utopian ideology ⓘ violence of modernization ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| publicationStatusAtTimeOfWriting | unpublished ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early Soviet era ⓘ |
| structure | allegorical narrative ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
construction of socialism
ⓘ
mass grave ⓘ void at the heart of utopia ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ tragic ⓘ |
| writtenDuring | Stalinist period ⓘ |
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