This group has as its focus transnational cultural flows amidst conflict, with the Soviet Union and now Russia as pivot. A burgeoning field within popular geopolitics studies, this group invites members who consider interpersonal and transcultural ties, movements and practices as an important site for the performance of geopolitical identities and affinities. The 20th century was a period of practices of solidarity and alliances, and not only animosities and conflict, particularly when taking into account the East bloc’s relations with the Global South. Literature, music, cinema, the performance of ideological solidarities and the cultivation of friendships fall under this rubric of transnational cultural flows and socialities. Contemporary practices of sociality, engendered by media and migration, are also a focus of research.