Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism -- an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly brings together scholars from various parts of the globe to discuss socialist realism as it appears across genres in art, architecture, film, and literature and across geographic divides -- from the "center", Russia, to various points at the "periphery" -- China, Germany, France, Poland, remote republics of the former USSR, and the United States. The contributors argue that socialist realism