Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43

Show Notes : This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally arrive in the town of Chevengur, we go from a picaresque romp around the newly-Soviet countryside into the dirty work of actually building Communism. “Danger and Deliverance: Reading Andrei Platonov” by Angela Livingstone “ Chevengur : On the Road with Bolshevik Utopia” by David Bethea in The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction “ Chevengur : Buried in the Family Plot” by Elior Borenstein in Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929 The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube . Our links: Website | ⁠Discord⁠ Socials: Instagram⁠ | BlueSky | Twitter⁠ | Facebook Questions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com . Advertising Inquiries:

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Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43 is an episode from Tipsy Tolstoy by The Slavic Literature Pod.

This episode is 105:03 long.

This episode was published on Mar 6, 2026.

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