And, in the split perspective afforded by the book's contradictory point of view, it's possible to see both the initial construction and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet project as overlapping features of the same landscape, in 'the deserted shelterlessness of the steppe.'
On the one hand, here was 'an honest attempt to portray the beginning of a communist society,' as Platonov described his efforts in a letter to his powerful colleague Maxim Gorky, in 1929, in a bid to secure official approval for the book's publication.
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