Research Expertise and Interest

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics

Research Description

Edward Tyerman's research interests focus on cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, within the wider historical contexts of socialist internationalism and comparative postsocialisms. His first book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021), rediscovers the intensive engagement with China in 1920s Soviet culture as a key experiment in the imagining of socialist internationalism. His current research explores Sino-Soviet cultural collaboration in the 1950s and the role of the Russia-China relationship in the social imaginary of the postsocialist period.