Introduction: Thomas Lahusen -- Socialist realism in search of its shores: some historical remarks on the "Historically open aesthetic system of the truthful representation of life" / Thomas Lahusen -- A World of prettiness: socialist realism and its aesthetic categories / Leonid Heller -- Peoples at an exhibition: Soviet architecture and the national question / Greg Castillo -- Soft porn, kitsch, and post-Fascist bodies: the East German novel of arrival / Julia Hell -- The Disaster of middlebrow taste, or, Who "invented" socialist realism? / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Son of the regiment: deus ex machina / Sergei Zimovets -- Paradoxes of unified culture: from Stalin's fairy tale to Molotov's lacquer box / Svetlana Boym -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Soviet communism: The Black flame as socialist realism / Lily Wiatrowski Phillips -- Censorship as the triumph of life / Mikhail Iampolski -- "Why is Soviet painting hidden from us?" Zhdanov art and its international relations and fallout, 1947-53 / Antoine Baudin -- The Power of rewriting: postrevolutionary discourse on Chinese socialist realism / Xudong Zhang -- Primitive communism and the other way around / Yuri Slezkine.
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The South Atlantic quarterly, 0038-2876 ; v. 94, no. 3
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