Romancing The Locomotive
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Andrey Platonov was arguably the purest literary practitioner of the principles of “scientific Marxism.” Marxist literary critics — Georg Lukács, Fredric Jameson — have appreciated this. Stalin, however, did not. As a result, many of Platonov’s best works were composed “for the drawer” and published only years after his death.
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