In this collection's foreword, Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov indicate the two
dimensions of Roma existence as 'community', explicitly different ethnic groups from the …

The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires
surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange soon opened between the two …

In 1968, a Jordanian man,'Abbas Mirza, visited Kabardino-Balkaria, a mountainous
autonomous republic in Soviet Russia. He was of Kabardian (eastern Circassian) descent …

It is surprising that studies of the Communist International (Comintern) have overwhelmingly
ignored its educational branch. Throughout the Comintern's existence (1919–1943) its …

The following account of the Moscow-based Communist University for Toilers of the East in
Moscow (1921-1938) seeks to counter the prevailing tendency among scholars of the Global …

This article focuses on travels undertaken by future students of the Communist University of
the Toilers of the East (KUTV). It puts the experience 'on the road'on the map of the …

This chapter focuses on the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet Ran. It explores how his communist
and anti-colonial political commitments helped him forge an alternative vision of what it …

Visualizing Soviet internationalism as a student dormitory, this essay identifies a new
transnational subgenre, the Soviet dormitory novel, and analyzes four examples: Nazim …

“Socialism,” Régis Debray has written,“was born with a printers' docket around its neck....
Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This …

Abstract The uneasy Putin-Erdogan partnership reminds of the early twentieth-century
trends in the Russo-Turkish relations–taking advantage of each other's dissidents vs …