Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Images ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: From Internationalism to Transnationalism 1
6. Part I. Forms
7. 1 “How They Do It in America”: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Arbitrage in Soviet Russia 25
8. 2 Transnational Theory of the Avantgarde: János Mácza, Artistic Praxis, and the Marxist Method 88
9. 3 Staging Revolution: Stalinist Drambalet in the German Democratic Republic 129
10. 4 Hegelienkov: Eval'd Ilienkov, Western Marxism, and Philosophical Politics after Stalin 160
11. Part II. Geographies
12. 5 Guides to Berlin: Exiles, Émigrés, and the Left 185
13. 6 “Syphilis, Dirt, and the Frontiers of Revolution”: Langston Hughes and Arthur Koestler at the Borders of Disgust 214
14. 7 The Intellectual Migrations of the British Communist Ralph Fox during the 1920s and 1930s 239
15. Part III. Identities
16. 8 Revolutionary Violence with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Migrants in Early Soviet Literature 267
17. 9 The Feeling and Fragility of Modernity: Red Mobility against the Grand Tour in Nikolai Aseev’s Unmade Beauty (1928) 299
18. 10 Blackness in the Red Land: African Americans and Racial Identity in the “Colourless” Soviet Union 319
19. Part IV. Communities
20. 11 The “Father of Russian Futurism” in America: David Burliuk and the Russian Voice 345
21. 12 Exilic Experiments in Education: The Multiple Lives and Journeys of László Radványi, pseud. Johann-Lorenz Schmidt 375
22. 13 Haunting Encounters: Reimagining Hermina Dumont Huiswoud’s Trip to the Soviet Union, 1930–1933 398
23. 14 Desiring the USSR: Writers from Two Germanys in the Soviet Contact Zone 429
24. List of Contributors 459
25. Index 463