This time at Bookstop, Sunitha Balakrishnan introduces you to renowned Russian author Andrei Platonov. Andrei Platonov is Regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. The outside world did not start to hear about him or discuss him until the 1990s. In Soviet Russia, his art was banned. His writings were tightly suppressed even though he was a committed communist. Despite receiving fame in Russia, he died without publishing any of his most notable works. At the age of fifty-one, he passed away. What did he write specifically to rile up the Soviet leadership?