Moscow, fourth Rome. Stalinism, cosmopolitanism and the evolution of Soviet culture (1931-1941)

In the 16th century, Philofei, the monk of the Pskov Spaso-Eleazarov Monastery, proclaimed Moscow by the third Rome. By the beginning of the 1930s, intellectuals and artists around the world saw in Moscow the source of the new educational and liberation project. The work of the famous Slavist, professor of Yale University Katerina Clark shows how official institutions and Soviet intellectuals tried to approve the reputation of the USSR as a center of left and anti -fascist movements, to turn Moscow into a cultural example of a new global future. The main characters of this book are S. Eisenstein, S. Tretyakov, M. Koltsov and I. Ehrenburg, whose intellectual, artistic and political activity formed the basis of the changing general line of Soviet cultural diplomacy throughout the second half of the 1920s-1930s. The theoretical context of this study is the works of B. Brecht, V. Benyamin, G. Lukach and M. Bakhtin. In turn, the key concepts of modern socio -humanitarian knowledge - transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, world literature - set a new political and polemic context for understanding their own works. As a result of such a shuttle reading at the site of the iron curtain, often determining the description of the Soviet culture of the 1930s, the international space of intellectual dialogue is found