Red Migrations : Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture After 1917.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuxbury-Gleissner, Philip.

Contributor:

Gorski, Bradley A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism--History--20th century.

Transnationalism.

Intellectuals--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Ideology and literature--History--20th century.

Ideology and literature.

Slavic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Slavic literature.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Communism and art--20th century.

Communism and art.

Communism and literature--20th century.

Communism and literature.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Influence.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Summary:

Foregrounding transnational movements in and around Soviet culture, Red Migrationsrethinks the field of migration studies in socialist Eastern Europe.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Images

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Internationalism to Transnationalism

Part I. Forms

1 "How They Do It in America": Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Arbitrage in Soviet Russia

2 Transnational Theory of the Avant-garde: János Mácza, Artistic Praxis, and the Marxist Method

3 Staging Revolution: Stalinist Drambalet in the German Democratic Republic

4 Hegelienkov: Eval'd Ilienkov, Western Marxism, and Philosophical Politics after Stalin

Part II. Geographies

5 Guides to Berlin: Exiles, Émigrés, and the Left

6 "Syphilis, Dirt, and the Frontiers of Revolution": Langston Hughes and Arthur Koestler at the Borders of Disgust

7 The Intellectual Migrations of the British Communist Ralph Fox during the 1920s and 1930s

Part III. Identities

8 Revolutionary Violence with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Migrants in Early Soviet Literature

9 The Feeling and Fragility of Modernity: Red Mobility against the Grand Tour in Nikolai Aseev's Unmade Beauty (1928)

10 Blackness in the Red Land: African Americans and Racial Identity in the "Colourless" Soviet Union

Part IV. Communities

11 The "Father of Russian Futurism" in America: David Burliuk and the Russian Voice

12 Exilic Experiments in Education: The Multiple Lives and Journeys of László Radványi, pseud. Johann-Lorenz Schmidt

13 Haunting Encounters: Reimagining Hermina Dumont Huiswoud's Trip to the Soviet Union, 1930-1933

14 Desiring the USSR: Writers from Two Germanys in the Soviet Contact Zone

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Gleissner, Philip Red Migrations

ISBN:

9781487543907

OCLC:

1478692664