Abstract
"Digging the Revolution" argues that Russian writer Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit (Kotlovan, 1929-30), featuring the creation of a vast pit in the Soviet countryside, is not the dystopian satire of Soviet collectivization it has long been taken to represent. Rather, the central hole marks an epistemological fissure in which dystopian and utopian outcomes seem to occur simultaneously. As such, the book does not offer any one determinative statement about the future, but—in dialogue with Kant and Lyotard's related philosophical claims about the communitarian sense engendered by the "abysses" of history—leaves its characters and readers to make a predictive judgment.
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