num_pages: 141
description: The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for what is to become a grand 'general' building where all the town's inhabitants will live happily and 'in silence.'
language: English
title: The Foundation Pit
titlecomplete: The Foundation Pit
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Russia, Dystopia
ratings_count: 5493
places: U.S.S.R.
awards: awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
category: Übersetzung
publisher: Northwestern University Press