In Internationalist Aesthetics (Columbia, 2021), Edward Tyerman (Slavic Languages & Literatures) explores the crucial role that China played as the key site for Soviet debates over how the political project of socialist internationalism should be mediated, represented, and produced. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, and bridging Slavic and East Asian studies, he shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community. He reveals both the aspirations and the limitations of this project, illuminating a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations.

Tyerman is joined by Andrew Jones (East Asian Languages & Cultures).