Books by B. Groys

Since I liked Groys's books on Socialist Realism in Stalin's era, I compiled this lists of his publications. Currently, I am interested in where the Socialist Realist topic comes up again in his writing and how it changed over the last 20 years. I include edited volumes, also.

There are still a lot of other books edited and written by Groys. It makes no sense to list them all.

(this list is made with MLA 2 ed english)

Before 2000 

Groys, Boris. Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin: Die gespaltene Kultur in der Sowjetunion. München: Hanser, 1988.

On the art in the Stalin's time. Groys argues that socialist realism did not simply reject the Avantgarde art, but continued and intensified some of its central claims. Therefore, the book Avantgarde to a great extent as well as Russian postmordern art from around the 1960s and 1970s which reference Stalin's art.

Des Ausstellung Tyrannei Schönen, Architektur der Stalin-Zeit, and Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, eds. Tyrannei des Schönen: Architektur der Stalin-Zeit ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Tyrannei des Schönen, Architektur der Stalin-Zeit" im MAK - Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, vom 6.4. - 17.7.1994]. Noever, Peter, and Boris Grojs. München: Prestel, 1994.

Groys, Boris. Die Erfindung Rußlands. Edition Akzente. München: Hanser, 1995.

A collection of essays published in other contexts, only introduction is new. 

Groys, Boris. Logik der Sammlung: Am Ende des musealen Zeitalters. Edition Akzente. München: Hanser, 1997.

 A book on the art museum in a time of medialization.

Groys, Boris. Über das Neue: Versuch einer Kulturökonomie. 3. Auflage. Fischer Forum Wissenschaft 14433. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2004 [1999].

After 2000

Groys, Boris. Unter Verdacht: Eine Phänomenologie der Medien. München: Hanser, 2000.

It has been a long time since I read this book, I better don't attempt a summary from thin air. However, communism and utopia seem not to be terrible important for it.

Groys, Boris, and Michael Hagemeister, eds. Die neue Menschheit: Biopolitische Utopien in Russland zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Orig.-Ausg., 1. Aufl. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 1763. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.

Part of the research project "The postcommunist condition". http://www.postcommunist.de. Volume 1. A reader with texts by N. Fedorov, K. Ciolkovskij, A. Svjatogor, A. Jaroslavskij, Lev Trockij, V. Murav'ev, A. Bogdanov, A. Zalkind from 1916 to 1935

Groys, Boris; Aage Hansen-Löve, and Gabriele Leupold, eds. Am Nullpunkt: Positionen der russischen Avantgarde. Orig.-Ausg., 1. Aufl. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 1764. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.

Part of the research project "The postcommunist condition". http://www.postcommunist.de. Volume 2.

Groys, Boris; Anja Herrmann, and Julia Warmers, eds. Zurück aus der Zukunft: Osteuropäische Kulturen im Zeitalter des Postkommunismus. Edition Suhrkamp 2452. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.

Part of the research project "The postcommunist condition". http://www.postcommunist.de. Volume 3

Groys, Boris. Das kommunistische Postskriptum. Orig.-Ausg., 1. Aufl. Edition Suhrkamp 2403. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2006.

A little book of not even 100 pages, attempts to think communism as a society in which "power and its critique operate in the same medium" (p. 9). From this dubitable definition of communism, Groys derives an interesting question focusing on language and its power in the communist state.

Groys, Boris. Die Kunst des Denkens. Weibel, Peter. Fundus-Bücher 169. Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts, 2008.

According to the contents, I see nothing that is of imidiate interest to me right now: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3060518&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm