Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union)* (*Columbia UP, 2024) examines political relations and literary translations between Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through to the 1960s. By drawing on a wide range of texts – from erotic comedy, historical fiction and film, to socialist realist novels and theatre – Ertürk argues that these works belong simultaneously to modern Turkish literature, a transnational Soviet republic of letters, and the global literary archive of world revolution. A unique textual exploration, Writing in Red offers a new account of global revolutionary literary culture.
Nergis Ertürk) is Associate Professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of *Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey *(2011), which received the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, and editor of the *Comparative Literature Studies *journal.
Iva Glisic is a historian and art historian specialising in modern Russia and the Balkans.
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