Chronology: Comintern Aesthetics – Between Politics and Culture

Abstract

riod that serves as the backbone of this volume. Many – indeed, most – of the nuances of its history are inaccessible through a timeline alone, and so have been left out; readers are encouraged to pursue this history in more detail by referring to the individual chapters of the volume. Visually, the timeline has been separated into two columns: one devoted to the political developments of the interwar years and the Third International’s institutional history, from its birth as the selfdesignated vanguard of the world revolution to its collapse in the Second World War; the other to the radical and internationalist cultural ferment that surrounded, and was to a degree fostered by, the Comintern. However, this division is a contrivance of presentation. Far from assuming any clean separation of politics and culture (especially in this era), our goal is for readers to perceive their intertwining trajectories and to read the two strands of the timeline in conjunction with each other.