This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonov's perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings the works of Platonov into a dialogue with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy on issues of communality, groundlessness, memory, and interiority.

Tora Lane ph. D is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Sodertorn University, Sweden.

Introduction
1.A Proletarian Existentialist Realism
2.Chevengur and the Movement of the Revolution
3.The Foundation Pit and the Problem of Time
4.Happy Moscow and Universal Love
5.Dzhan: Retrieving the Inner
6.Reka Potudan: Love in Existential Poverty
7.The Ecstasy of Common Being and the Ecstasy of Existence in Common: "Inspired People" and "The Return"
Afterword: The Memory of Utopia and the Utopia of Memory
Bibliography
About the Author