Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917 by Bradley

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

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Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution. Changed patterns, motivations, and impacts of migration collided with new cultural forms and aesthetic mandates. Red Migrations highlights the various multidirectional and multilateral transnational movements of leftist thinkers, artists, and writers.The book draws on avant-garde poets such as David Burliuk, Marxist theoreticians such as Jnos Mcza, and "fellow travellers" such as Langston Hughes, revealing how leftists of all stripes were inspired and at times impelled by the Soviet Revolution to cross borders. It explores how the resulting circulation of ideas, aesthetic forms, and individuals not only contributed enormously to the ferment of creative activity in the early Soviet years, but also deeply informed international leftist aesthetics and political practice throughout the twentieth century.The robust and diverse transnational networks created by these circulations are at the centre of this volume. With original archival research and insightful analyses, Red Migrations sheds light on the ideals, aspirations, and disappointments of leftist transnationalism from the 1920s through the 1960s and the aesthetic forms they engendered.

Author Biography

Philip Gleissner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University.Bradley A. Gorski is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Internationalism to TransnationalismPhilip Gleissner and Bradley A. Gorski Part I: Forms 1. "How They Do It in America": Cultural Arbitrage in Soviet RussiaSerguei Oushakine 2. Transnational Theory of the Avant-Garde: János Mácza, Artistic Praxis, and the Marxist MethodIrina Denischenko 3. Staging Revolution: Stalinist Drambalet in the German Democratic RepublicElizabeth H. Stern 4. Hegelienkov: Eval'd Ilienkov, Western Marxism, and Philosophical Politics after StalinTrevor WilsonPart II: Geographies 5. Guides to Berlin: Exiles, Émigrés, and the LeftRoman Utkin 6. "Syphilis, Dirt, and the Frontiers of Revolution": Langston Hughes and Arthur Koestler at the Borders of DisgustBradley A. Gorski 7. The Intellectual Migrations of the British Communist Ralph Fox during the 1920s and 1930sKaterina ClarkPart III: Identities 8. Revolutionary Violence with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Migrants in Early Soviet LiteratureEdward Tyerman 9. The Feeling and Fragility of Modernity: Red Mobility against the Grand Tour in Nikolai Aseev's The Unmade Beauty (1928)Michael Kunichika 10. Blackness in the Red Land: African Americans and Racial Identity in the "Colourless" Soviet UnionKimberly St. Julian-VarnonPart IV: Communities 11. The "Father of Russian Futurism" in America: David Burliuk and the Russian Voice Anna Arustamova 12. Exilic Experiments in Education: The Multiple Lives and Journeys of László Radványi, pseud. Johann-Lorenz SchmidtHelen Fehervary 13. Haunting Encounters: Reimagining Hermina Dumont Huiswoud's Trip to the Soviet Union, 1930–3Tatsiana Shchurko 14. Desiring the USSR: Writers from Two Germanys in the Soviet Contact ZonePhilip Gleissner

Review

"A visionary and necessary compendium of the multiple ways transnational migration and cultural patterns intersected in and around the Bolshevik Revolution. The 'migrant archive' under consideration here offers a diversity of displacement, not only from Moscow to Leningrad, but from Hollywood to China, from Berlin to Central Asia. With mobility at their center, these captivating chapters provide a breathtaking spectrum of incisive meditations on the way the movement of diverse bodies within networks of cultural exchange provoked not only ideological but also cultural and artistic patterns that inform leftist transnationalism to this day."--Kate Baldwin, Professor of English and Communication Studies, Tulane University"This is a brilliant collection of essays that uses migration to traverse multiple boundaries--for instance, between socialist internationalism and capitalist globalization, western and eastern Marxisms--as well as gender, generational, and racial divides. Together they transform our understanding of leftist aesthetics, opening our eyes to unfettered practices of political commitment and cross-disciplinary scholarship."--Steven S. Lee, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley"This volume makes a momentous contribution to the study of transnational mobility in the twentieth century. Sophisticated, wide-ranging, and inspirational, its scholarship reimagines leftist culture as an evolving swath of practices sustained by both conflict and solidarity, and often shaped by migration and exile. The intellectual currents nurturing this culture are here captured in their complexity, resisting a neat ideological attribution."--Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London

Details ISBN1487543883 Author Philip Gleissner Publisher University of Toronto Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781487543884 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Toronto Press Subtitle Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917 Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada Edited by Philip Gleissner ISBN-10 1487543883 Illustrations 29 b&w illustrations Pages 504 DEWEY 891.709004 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publication Date 2024-09-06 UK Release Date 2024-09-06 We've got this

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