Exilic Marxisms: Lukács and Balázs in Stalin’s Moscow

This paper discusses exile and emigration as factors in the encounters of art, philosophy, cultural criticism, and political power in Soviet Russia under Stalin. While by now we possess considerable knowledge about emigration and exile from Eastern and Central Europe to the West in the 1920s and 193...

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Published in:Thesis eleven 2022-08, Vol.171 (1), p.30-46
Main Author: Tihanov, Galin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communism
Criticism
Emigration
Exile
Marxism
Political elites
Political power
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Summary:This paper discusses exile and emigration as factors in the encounters of art, philosophy, cultural criticism, and political power in Soviet Russia under Stalin. While by now we possess considerable knowledge about emigration and exile from Eastern and Central Europe to the West in the 1920s and 1930s, we have tended to under-research and under-conceptualize the alternative destination. Seemingly less glamorous and lastingly tainted by the open glorification or silent acquiescence to Stalin and the purges, Moscow as a place of emigration and exile of left East-Central European intellectuals in the 1930s presents a uniquely important trajectory, the study of which contributes to enriching and refining our understanding not just of the history of international communism, but also – and perhaps more importantly – of the formation of the intellectual and political elites that were to shape life in the Eastern Bloc after 1945.
ISSN:0725-5136
1461-7455
DOI:10.1177/07255136221116379