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Platonov studies continue to revolve around questions of resistance. Each article in this special section begins by articulating the parameters of a paradigm and then shows how Andrei Platonov distorts or subverts the model in significant ways. The author otDzhan remains an unruly figure, impatient with the stereotypes that nonetheless fuel his work, if only primarily through opposition. Once, the question was how to determine Platonov's attitude toward Soviet communism. Now that our understanding of both Platonov's oeuvre and Soviet culture has become richer and more complex, the issue of resistance remains but it has gained more facets.

"Therefore," I said, somewhat bewildered, "we would have to eat again from the Tree of Knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?""Quite right," he answered. "And that's the last chapter in the history of the world."Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Marionette Theatre"On the morning of 11 May 1876, a young seamstress pushed her stepdaughter out the window of their Petersburg apartment. The apparent reason for this attempted infanticide (miraculously, the child survived her four-story plunge) was Ekaterina Kornilova's anger at her husband and jealousy of his deceased first wife. The case would seem undistinguished in its sordidness were it not for Fedor Dostoevskii's adoption of the affair as a cause celebre. Although he originally attacked Kornilova's defenders, Dostoevskii later defended her as well when he learned that Kornilova had been pregnant at the time of the attempted murder.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction - Eric Naiman -- Part One: Space and Art -- 1. Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space - Katerina Clark -- 2. The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin - Jan Plamper -- 3. Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s - Oksana Bulgakowa -- 4. "Broad Is My Motherland": The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song - Hans Gunther -- 5. The Art of Totality - Boris Groys -- Part Two: Mobilizing the Soviet Subject -- 6. All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928-1956 - Randi Cox -- 7. The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era - Evgeny Dobrenko -- 8. "But Eastward, Look, the Land Is Brighter": Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical - Richard Taylor -- Part Three: The Blank Page -- 9. To Explore or Conquer?: Mobile Perspectiveson the Soviet Cultural Revolution - Emma Widdis -- 10. Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture - John McCannon -- 11. "The Best in the World": The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s - Mikhail Ryklin -- 12. Russo-Soviet Topoi - Mikhail Epstein -- Contributors -- Index.