“…This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the political and artistic directions of life in the diaspora, these writers carried on two simultaneous literary dialogues: with the emerging Soviet Union and with the dizzying world of European modernism that surrounded them in the West. …”

“…Die Herrschaft über das weit von Berlin entfernte Territorium wurde fortan in einem engen Wechselspiel mit auswärtigen Mächten aufrechterhalten und zugleich eingeschränkt. …”