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Abstract: The article deals with the philosophical issues of Platonov’s “Chevengur,” which is often called a socio-philosophical utopia. Indeed, it describes the conditions and ways of implementing communism as the “beginning world” and the “world of the end.” The “virtual” object of desire is a sensually perceived image of an ideal society. Its construction amid the conflict between the ideal and the reality led to the total destruction of everything that turned out to be superfluous and unsecured. The paradox of this kind of construction in the absence of moral, intellectual, and material resources is that utopia, even with its verbal realization, is instantly transformed into a dystopia, because instead of the real power of victory, the Chevengurians were captured by the element of defending life and the desire to overcome the enemy with mental fear of explosion in the absence of a fuse in the bomb.