At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

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Stalin held deeply ambivalent views regarding Platonov's worth. In the wake of the 1917 revolutions Platonov became very active in a variety of pursuits. Some of his work was publiAndrei Platonovd or reprinted during the 1960s' Khrushchev Thaw.

Although Platonov was a Communist his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies. S. August 16] 1899 – January 5 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Климе́нтов) a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism.