The Cultures of World Socialism Working Group has fostered a wide range of research projects over the past few years, some of them workshopped by our group, and some more loosely inspired by our discussions. A partial list, including some publications by former working group members, is below:

Collective CWS Ventures:

Comparative Literature Studies (CLS) 61, no. 2 (2024), special issue, “Communist World Poetics,” guest edited by Samuel Hodgkin.

Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures. International Art Exhibitions in the Socialist World 1947-1989. Eds. Sven Spieker with Polly Savage, Bojana Videkanic and Christene d’Anca (forthcoming Toronto UP, 2025).

Comintern Aesthetics. Eds. Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee. Toronto: U Toronto Press, 2020.

Books and Articles:

Sandeep Banerjee. “Forms of Translation, Translation of Forms: From Gorky’s Mother to Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084.” CLS 26, no. 2 (2024): 306-334.

Nergis Ertürk. Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Leah Feldman. “That Antiracist Feeling: The Underground Sensorium of Waning Socialist        Internationalism,” Comparative Literature, 75:2 (2023): 172-187.

___.“Trad Rights: Making Eurasian Whiteness at the ‘End of History’” boundary 2, 50.1 (2023): 69-104.

___.“Goatibexization: The Haunting Modernity of Soviet Hybridity,” Modernism/modernity, forthcoming 2024

​​___.“Agitation” Post45, forthcoming 2024

___.Azbuka Strikes Back: An Anticolonial ABCs, with Slavs and Tatars, Berlin: König, 2024.

___.“After Post-: Performance at the End of History,” Post.MoMA, 2024,

https://post.moma.org/after-post-performance-at-the-end-of-history/

Douglas Gabriel. “Smoke on the Water: Jong Yong Man’s Evening Glow over Kangsŏn and the Grounds for Landscape Painting in North Korea.” Art Journal 80, no. 2 (2021): 84–100.

___. “After the Fall: The Cold War Optics of Korean National Division on View in Japan.” Third Text 36, no. 1 (2022): 65–82.

___. “Fraternal Encounters: Socialist Art and Architecture Between Budapest and Pyongyang in the 1950s.” In Universal – International – Global: Art Historiographies of Socialist Eastern Europe, eds. Marina Dmitrieva, Beata Hock, and Antje Kemp, 240–57. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2023.

___ and Adri Kácsor. “Architecture in Anticipation: Building Socialist Friendship Between Hungary and North Korea in the 1950s.” Art History 45, no. 5 (2022), special issue, “Red Networks: Post-War Art Exchange”: 996–1015.

Amelia Glaser. “A Chinese Soldier in Crimea’s Vineyards,” East European Jewish Affairs (December 2022)

___________ and Paige Lee. “An Archive of the Contemporary: Ukrainian Poetry and Digital Solidarity on Facebook,” with Paige Lee, Slavic Review (forthcoming Fall 2024)

___________. “Biography of a Reader: Alexander Pomerantz and the Kultur-Lige’s Legacy,” in Building Modern Jewish Culture: The Yiddish Kultur-Lige, Ed. Gennady Estraikh, Harriet Murav, and Myroslav Shkandrij, Studies in Yiddish. Oxford: Legenda, 2023.

___________. “’Mine from ’33, yours from ‘41’: Translating Tragedy in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Poetry,” Comparative Literature (May 2023)

___________.  “Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism” in Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context, Ed. Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023.

___________. Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2020.

Yi Gu. “Chinese Millets: Native Soil, the Party–State, and Art in Contemporary China.” Word & Image 39, no. 3 (July 3, 2023): 311–23.

Samuel Hodgkin. “Persian Poetry in the Second-World Translation System.” In The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation, eds. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Patricia J. Higgins, and Michelle Quay, 427-446. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022.

___. Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

___. “Romanticism, Internationalism, and the National Poet: Genealogies of Second-World Surrogacy.” CLS 26, no. 2 (2024): 246-275.

Cristian Nae, “Dreams and Nightmares: Nationalism in Art Exhibitions from Socialist Romania 1974-1989.” In State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918-2018, eds. Agnieszka Chmielewska, Irena Kossowska and Marcin Lachowski, 195-208. New York, London: Routledge, 2022.

___. “What is at Stake in Writing Art History through Exhibition Histories in East-Central Europe?”, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, no. 35 (2023): 155-192.

___. “Constellational Modernisms: “Socialist Humanism” and “Contextual Art” in Ion Bitzan and Wanda Mihuleac’s Graphic Art of the 1970s, ARTMargins 13:2 (2024): 45–64.

Kevin M. F. Platt. Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between Global Orders. Dekalb, Il.: Northern Illinois University Press/Cornell University Press, 2024.

Кевин М. Ф. Платт. ​​“Постсоциалистические постколонии и руины глобальной истории” [“Postsocialist Postcolonies and the Ruins of Global History”]. Новое литературное обозрение. [New Literary Observer—Moscow]. No. 178 (2022).

Sudha Rajagopalan. Journeys of Soviet Things. Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India. Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War. Routledge, 2023. Russian Translation (forthcoming) at Academic Studies Press (Boston).

_____ “Soviet books, geopolitical imagination and eclectic solidarities in India.” In C. B. Balme (Ed.), Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World : Theatre, Film, Literature and Things (pp. 197-222). Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War. Routledge, 2024.

Sanjukta Sunderason. “Aesthetics of Decolonization in South Asia.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian History, 2021. https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/page/forthcoming/forthcoming-articles

___.  “‘Sorrow and happiness are the same all over the world’: Zainul Abedin’s Jordan Drawings, June 1970.” In Solidarity must be Defended, edited by Eszter Szakács and Naeem Mohaiemen. Budapest: tranzit.hu; Eindhoven: van Abbemuseum; Istanbul: SALT; New Delhi: Tricontinental; Gwangzou: ACI, 2022.

___ and Lotte Hoek eds. Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics, Networks, Connected Histories. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Nicolai Volland. “Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy.” in New World Orderings: China and the Global South, eds. Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas, 21-37. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

Sarah Ann Wells. “The Brazilian Eisenstein (1961–1981).” CLS 26, no. 2 (2024): 335-364.

Bojana Videkanić “Nonaligned modernism and continuities of revolution, partisan struggle and anti-imperialism in the work of Yugoslav visual artists.” Eds.Nikolay Karkov and Rossen Djangalov. Slavic, and East European Studies Journal, Vol. 66 Issue 2, (Summer 2022): 225-243.

–––. “Nonaligned modernism: Making a Case for Yugoslav Culture, Cultural Diplomacy and Solidarity in the Global South,” Nationalities Papers, Volume 49, Issue 3 (May 2021): 504 – 522.

–––. “Nonaligned Modernism.” A Lexicon of Decoloniality in Eastern Europe, ed. Ana Vilenica, Beograd: Kuda, 2022.–––. “The Long Durée of Yugoslav Socially Engaged Art and its Continued Life in the Nonaligned World.” In Socialist Yugoslavia And The Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political And Economic Imaginaries. Ed. Paul Stubbs. Montreal, Kingston, London: McGill-Queens University Press, 2023.