... and thus a member of one of its diaspora nationalities. Despite their formal and procedural differences, both artists promoted photomontage as the premier agitational weapon of world communism and Soviet propaganda, contra the rise of documentary photography as well as various modes of realist painting...

... of continuity rules, the staple of classical Hollywood film narration. Soviet montage theory emerged in an attempt to adjust continuity rules from American screenwriting manuals in the 1910s to discontinuous and extranarrative experiments in filmmaking by avant-garde directors. Contrast rather than continuity...

... of Cold War meeting between the Soviet constructivist relief models of Vladimir Tatlin or the experiments of Aleksandr Rodchenko and the appropriated consumerist detritus of American pop art (less the smooth serialized screen prints of Andy Warhol than the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg or Edward...

... in displaced persons (DP) camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet control as a result of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, first in labor camps in the Soviet interior and then, with their release after the German...

...Konstantin Akinsha During World War II the Soviet Union did not join the Allied restitution effort. Instead, more than two and a half million objects (not counting millions of books) were transported to the Soviet Union from its zone of occupation in Germany and from other European countries...

... of expression, or much enjoyed going to the movies. How, then, has it become a critical commonplace that Warburg’s late methods of ordering images resemble, especially, Soviet methods of film montage? The first two parts of this article show how such comparisons may be inaccurate or misleading. The third part...

... and illustrated magazines that imitated the AIZ or the graphic artists who reproduced Heartfield's montages in the name of pro-Soviet sympathy and antifascist solidarity. An overlooked detail in this story is the role that Heartfield's brother Wieland Herzfelde played in expanding the reception of Heartfield's...

...Caroline Rupprecht This article focuses on the fictionalized character of the Soviet spy Richard Stahlmann, who was attributed with “Asian eyes” by Peter Weiss, in volume 3 of The Aesthetics of Resistance . In a passage that describes Stahlmann’s visit to Angkor Wat, the character’s identity crisis...

...Klaus R. Scherpe At the very height of the Cold War, Wolfgang Koeppen reported on the political pecularities and abnormalities he encountered on his travels in the United States and the Soviet Union. Koeppen's texts perform a fascinating rewriting of the sentimental journey, choosing...

... a translingual approach to transnational memory of the entangled histories of the Holocaust and Soviet state terror in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on precepts of multilingualism that are more than merely additive, the analysis foregrounds Petrowskaja’s innovative contributions to translingual and even...

...Annie Pfeifer Rather than establishing literary relations with Russian intellectuals or securing the affections of his Latvian love interest, Walter Benjamin spends most of his 1926–27 Soviet sojourn shopping for toys. Benjamin’s habits present an interesting counterpoint to his communist...

... Biermann even after he was expelled from East Germany in 1976. This article assesses DDR PEN’s reactions to Biermann given its multiple functions as a representative of East German and Soviet bloc cultural diplomacy, an East German literary association hoping to protect some autonomous activity and free...

..., as a synthesis of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, the article attempts to reveal an alternative constellation of Soviet biomechanics and reactionary anticapitalist Lebensphilosophie , united in their shared rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 Walter...

... to win the Soviet Union over to their side is a function of the gigantic exertion of force through which the spirit of free enterprise seeks to consolidate its positions.” Palmström dixit . Regressions are not contained in his worldview, and thus he decrees in noble simplicity that nothing can exist...

... contributes to the history of anti- fascism as a phenomenon that, indeed, proved remarkably versatile.8 At first glance, Moscow seems to have shaped much. On June 10, 1945, Marshal Zhukov, governor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), proclaimed its primary task as the “final...

... Cristina Cuevas-Wolf Communism in the Soviet Union under Stalinist dictatorship, according to Kasper Braskén, differed from communism as a radical social movement in noncommunist states, such as Weimar Germany. Another significant differ- ence, for Braskén, is between the Kommunistische Partei...

... Enzensberger (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1990), 7; W. G. Sebald, Luftkrieg und Literatur (Munich: Hanser, 1999), 18. Stephen Brockmann  71 The Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early German Democratic Republic The Soviet Occupation Zone and the early GDR were never...

... in fact believe that capitalism and imperialism are stages completed and overcome, and that Western democracies are developing more and more into unfettered welfare states. Into this vision of a “rich world,” Enzensberger incorporates the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary (where is the GDR?), along...

..., in the Soviet Union as well as in republican Spain, central Europe, and France. Several of the following essays were fi rst presented as papers at a small conference in May 2006, “Radical Politics/Radical Aesthetics,” organized by the Getty and accompanied by Andrés Mario Zervigón’s exhibition...

...: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1967); Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West (New York: Free Press, 1994); Sean McMeekin, The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West (New Haven, CT...