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Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution. New patterns, motivations, and impacts of migration collided with new cultural forms and aesthetic mandates. The new volume at the center of this rondtable, Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917, 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 János Mácza, 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 roundtable brings together two editors, two contributors, and two respondents to discuss the book and the ongoing legacies of red migrations for understanding global leftist culture and the world today.