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Introduction
Aga Skrodzka

Part I. Material Cultures, Technologies, Industries
1. Socialist Domestic Infrastructures and the Politics of the Body: Bucharest and Havana
Iulia Stătică
2. Architecture in Series: Housing and Communist Idealism
Kimberly Zarecor
3. Restating Classicist Monumentalism in Soviet Architecture, 1930s-early 1950s
William C. Brumfield
4. Esfir Shub’s KShE (1932) and the Movement of Energy
Joshua Malitsky
5. Soviet Wall Newspapers: Social(ist) Media of an Analog Age
Birgitte Beck Pristed
6. Red Stars, Biorhythms, and Circuit Boards: Do-It-Yourself Aesthetics of Computing and Computer Games in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Švelch
7. Machines, Nations, and Faciality: Cultivating Mental Eyes in Soviet Books for Children
Serguei Alex. Oushakine

Part II. Institutional Discourses, Communist Visions, Theory
8. Who Doesn’t Like Aleksander Kobzdej? State Artist’s Career in the People’s Republic of Poland
Magdalena Moskalewicz
9. «How To» Make Art in Communist China
Vivian Li
10. Visions and Visualization of Sustainability: Leningrad Designers in Search of Soviet Recycling System, 1981-84
Yulia Karpova
11. Shaping the Avant-garde: The Reception of Soviet Constructivism by the American Art Journal October
Pablo Müller
12. A Time Lag of defa-futurum: A Socialist Cine-futurism from East Germany
Doreen Mende
13. The Visitation of the Idea: Badiou on Film and Communism
Rohan Kalyan

Part III. International and Intercultural Dimensions
14. In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China
Xiaoning Lu
15. Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa
Lindiwe Dovey
16. Brothers at War: The Images of Prison S-21 (Tuol Sleng) in the Framework of Intra-Communist Conflicts
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
17. The Constructivist Sartorial Utopia and Its Revolutionary Potential: Then and Now
Djurdja Bartlett
18. «Socialist Realist» Critiques of Neoliberal Shock Therapy: East German Artists Respond to the 1973 Putsch in Chile
April A. Eisman

Part IV. Visual Production and Strategic Spectacles
19. Beauty and Quality for All: A Vision of Fashion under Cuban Socialism
María A. Cabrera Arús
20. Disappearing from the Picture? Female Figures in Pattern Books of the Mao Years
Antonia Finnane
21. The Subject Who Knows: Photographers and Photographed in a Late East Germany
Sara Blaylock
22. Two Worlds: Boris Efimov, Soviet Political Caricature, and the Construction of the Long Cold War
Stephen M. Norris
23. The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Dang Nhât Minh’s New Wave Cinema
Dana Healy
24. The Montage Connection between John Heartfield and László Lakner: Artistic Dissidence and a New Leftism in Sixties Europe
Cristina Cuevas-Wolf
25. Visual Regimes of Juche Ideology in North Korea’s The Country I Saw
Travis Workman

Part V. After-images, Memory, Legacy
26. Television and The Good Times of Socialism
Anikó Imre
27. Futures Remembered: Kosmonauts, the GDR, and the Retrospective Impulse
Nick Hodgin
28. Contesting the Cuban Soviet Visual Rhetoric for the Present
Jacqueline Loss
29. Komunistki: Visual Memory of Female Communist Agency
Aga Skrodzka
30. Specters of Europe and Anti-communist Visual Rhetoric in the Romanian Film of the Early 1990s
Constantin Parvulescu and Claudiu Turcuş
31. Lenin in Los Angeles: Counter-Memories, Recycling Socialism
Katarzyna Marciniak
Coda: Flashes of Arab Communism
Laura Marks