Andrei Platonov, Schastlivaia Moskva [Happy Moscow]

Philip Ross Bullock (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1932

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

In August 1991, a series of hardliners moved against Mikhail Gorbachev and his liberalising reforms. The attempted putsch failed, and shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union collapsed. That same month, the heavyweight literary journal Novy Mir [New World] published an unknown novel by Andrei Platonov, the rediscovery of whose works had been a signal feature of perestroika and glasnost’ [see separate entry]. Despite this inauspicious start, Schastlivaia Moskva [Happy Moscow] has gone on to become one of the most commented on of all Platonov’s works, and indeed of all Soviet literature.

It is, truth to tell, an …

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Citation: Bullock, Philip Ross. "Schastlivaia Moskva". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14440, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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