...Glyn Salton-Cox Abstract Reading Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories (1935–39) through an important debate in the Marxist aesthetics of the period between Sergei Tretiakov and Georg Lukács, this article argues that Isherwood’s famous statement “I am a camera” should be reimagined...

... in that the commission had the same leadership as MORP had had (Mikhail Kol’tsov as head, Sergei Tretiakov as his deputy). When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the specter of rising fascism attracted large numbers to the movement, which became closely associated with the antifascist cause. The mid-1930s...