In the 1930s, Platonov worked with the Soviet philosopher Mikhail Lifshitz, who edited "The Literary Critic" ("Literaturny Kritik"), a Moscow magazine followed by Marxist philosophers around the world. Another of the magazine's contributor was the theoretician György Lukács and Platonov built upon connections with the two philosophers. A turning point in his life and career as a writer came with the publication in March 1931 of "For Future Use" (″Vprok″ in Russian), a novella that chronicled the forced collectivisation of agriculture during the first Five Year Plan.