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Comintern Aesthetics

Comintern Aesthetics

Comintern Aesthetics
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by Amelia Glaser (Editor); Steven S. Lee (Editor)

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  • Title Comintern Aesthetics
  • Author Amelia Glaser (Editor); Steven S. Lee (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press
  • Publication date
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6383002836
  • ISBN 9781487504656 / 1487504659
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6 x 1.6 in (22.10 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Literature - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020276874
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.04
  • Quantity available 3

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From the publisher

Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China. Notoriously, and from the organization's outset, these causes grew ever more subservient to Soviet state interest and Stalinist centralization.


Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have persisted, even after the Comintern's demise in 1943. Tracing these networks through a multiplicity of artistic forms geared towards advancing a common, liberated humanity, this volume captures both the failure and the enduring allure of a Soviet-centred world revolution.


The sixteen chapters in this edited volume examine cultural and revolutionary circuits that once connected Moscow to China, Southeast Asia, India, the Near East, Eastern Europe, Germany, Spain, and the Americas. The Soviet Union of the interwar years provided a template for the convergence of party politics and cultural history, but the volume traces how this template was adapted and reworked around the world. By emphasizing the shared Soviet routes of these far-flung circuits, Comintern Aesthetics recaptures a long-lost moment in which cultures could not only transform perception but also highlight alternatives to capitalism - namely, an anti-colonial world imaginary foregrounding race, class, and gender equality.

About the author

Amelia M. Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Steven S. Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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