This is the first volume to reconstruct and examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives (intellectual history; literary history and theory; comparative literature; translation studies; diaspora studies); the book is a vital contribution to current debates on world literature in and beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies.

Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of six books; The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2019) won the 2020 AATSEEL Prize for "Best Book in Literary Studies". He is currently working on world literature and cosmopolitanism.

Anne Lounsbery's scholarship focuses on Russian, European and American prose fiction of the nineteenth century. She is the author of Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Novel (Northwestern Illinois UP, 2019), Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America (Harvard University Press, 2007), and numerous articles on Russian literature.

Rossen Djagalov is Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU and an editor of LeftEast. His interests lie in the relationship between culture and Marxism, in Soviet(-bloc) internationalism, and the history of the left, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. His first book, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism (2020), deals with Soviet-Third-World cultural engagements.