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This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.

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"""World Literature in the Soviet Union demonstrates persuasively that World Literature can be productively conceptualised and analysed as a set of discrete grand projects, each with its own historically and culturally specific institutional and ideological underpinnings. The volume explores in both breadth and depth how Soviet projects of World Literature developed in tandem with the evolution of the Soviet Union’s more general politico-cultural positioning in the world. It at the same time provides important insights into the role that the idea of World Literature played in Soviet constructions of both internationalism and multiculturalism."" — Professor Andy Byford, Durham University"

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"Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of six books; The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2019) won the 2020 AATSEEL Prize for ""Best Book in Literary Studies"". He is currently working on world literature and cosmopolitanism. Anne Lounsbery's scholarship focuses on Russian, European and American prose fiction of the nineteenth century. She is the author ofLife is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Novel(Northwestern Illinois UP, 2019),Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America(Harvard University Press, 2007), and numerous articles on Russian literature. Rossen Djagalovis Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU and an editor ofLeftEast. His interests lie in the relationship between culture and Marxism, in Soviet(-bloc) internationalism, and the history of the left, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. His first book,From Internationalism to Postcolonialism(2020), deals with Soviet-Third-World cultural engagements."

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