also been compiled into a book with the same title. In Communist Guide to New York City (2008), Fiks photographed buildings and public places in New York City connected to the history of the American Communist movement. This includes the contemporary offices of CPUSA on West 23rd Street, John Reed's house in Greenwich Village, and W.E.B. Du Bois' apartment in Harlem. This project came in many forms, including installations, a walking tour of New York City, and a guidebook. In a gallery show in 2008, Fiks presented Lenin memorabilia he's collected from eBay, including Lenin busts, small statues, posters, and photographs. Titled Adopt Lenin (2008), he gave these items for free to exhibition attendees after they signed a legal agreement not to put these items back into the market via sales or similar economic exchanges. The signed contracts were also on display as part of the art exhibition. Fiks' more recent works explore the intersection of identities, the Soviet experience, and the Cold War. In the conceptual, participatory project A Gift to Birobidzhan (2009), Fiks invited international artists to donate artworks to Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish autonomous region in Russia. He repeated a gesture first made in 1936 by American artists to support the establishment of the failed Utopian project Birdobidzhan. The original collection included works by Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Harry Gottlieb, William Gropper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Raphael Soyer among others. Fiks referenced the Lavender Scare in his project Homosexuality is Stalin's Atom Bomb to Destroy America (2012), a collection of artworks including digital prints, photographs, and installation that explore the anti-gay paranoia of the MccArthy era. In his digital print series Stalin's Atom Bomb a.k.a. Homosexuality, Fiks juxtaposed quotes by American pundits and government officials that connected homosexuality to Communism on top of an image of RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test bomb nicknamed by the American military as "Joe 1". In Joe 1 Cruising in Washington D.C., Fiks photographed a 6-foot cardboard print of "Joe 1" in front of gay cruising sites historically active in D.C. during the Cold War. In the installation piece History of the CPUSA (Harry Hay), he inserted pieces of Harry Hay's biography inside a 1952 edition of History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster. Harry Hay was a prominent gay rights activist, communist, and labor rights advocate. Fiks took on another participatory conceptual