The East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World

by Deepa Bhasthi and Maria Berrios

Across the Third World, people grew up reading inexpensive, beautifully-produced books from the Soviet Union - children's books, classics of world literature, books on science and mathematics, and works of Marxist theory. The first half of The East Was Read is an homage to the lost world Soviet books. Wang Chaohua and Pankaj Mishra recall with fondness the meaning of these books for their very different lives in China and in India respectively. Deepa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8193466624
• ISBN13: 9788193466629
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Leftword Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"