num_pages: 315
description: Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism was an aesthetic project.
language: English
title: The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
titlecomplete: The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
genres: Film
ratings_count: 16
series: Culture and the Moving Image
publisher: Temple University Press