{"podcast":{"title":"The Slavic Literature Pod","slug":"the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403","podcast_index_feed_id":2534403,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/8100a5ac-e63a-4676-9165-e34193c74a47","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/slaviclitpod","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/1/4/7/ad6d4c3e-6f7b-40fc-8cfb-11e37a5d4165_0d798a660_10394377-1656108082867-a6609dcbc94d2.jpg","author":"The Slavic Literature Pod","episode_count":188,"summary":"The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T16:18:05.509327+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403"},"episode":{"title":"Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov","slug":"chevengur-chapters-1-25-by-andrei-platonov","published_at":"2025-10-27T09:00:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/chevengur-chapters-1-25-by-andrei-platonov","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403","url":"https://slaviclitpod.com","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/8d44ffd3-e252-49bb-b0c6-2699aeb9861e/stream.mp3","summary":"Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 1 through 25. Through the late Russian Empire into the early Soviet Union, Sasha Dvanov is finally orphaned when his fisherman father drowns in an attempt to understand his all-knowing, deathless fish. Growing up in the shuffling shadow of the new world, he joins the Bolshevik party and seeks to spread communism. This episode covers his adventures trying to find out if the peasants have, after the abdication of the Tsar, suddenly begun to embrace communist lives. From anarchist militias to a Bolshevik Fyodor Dostoevsky, he finds little to approve of in the countryside. Check out our old episode covering The Cow and the Third Son. A Companion to Andrei Platonov’s “The Foundation Pit” by Thomas Seyfrid. Time out of line: Sequence and plot in Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur by by Hallie A. White 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: https://redcircle.com/brands","meta_description":"Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 1 through 25. Through the late Russian Empire into the early So…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4265,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/episodes/chevengur-chapters-1-25-by-andrei-platonov/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/chevengur-chapters-1-25-by-andrei-platonov.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}