Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, Enlarged Edition:1917-1981

An excellent survey of the whole culture of Soviet music after the revolution and through Khruschev when the government was controlled the state-supported composers. Contents......Page 8 Preface to the Enlarged Edition......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Part I. Experimentation 1917-21......Page 16 1. Introduction. Before the Revolution......Page 18 2. Music during the Early Years of the Revolution......Page 26 Part II. Consolidation 1921-32......Page 54 3. Musical Life under the New Economic Policy and the Five Year Plan......Page 56 4. Opera, Ballet and Orchestral Music of the 1920’s......Page 76 5. Research and Education, the Institutes and Conservatories......Page 103 Part III. Regimentation 1932-53......Page 122 6. The Resolution of 1932......Page 124 7. Opera, Ballet and Orchestral Music of the 1930’s......Page 156 8. The Great Patriotic War, Soviet War Symphonies......Page 190 9. The Zhdanov Era......Page 219 10. Musicologists on Trial......Page 264 Part IV. Liberalization 1953-64......Page 284 11. From the Death of Stalin to the Twentieth Party Congress......Page 286 12. The Cultural Honeymoon......Page 313 13. Moscow, Autumn 1962......Page 368 14. Research, Education and Publishing......Page 387 15. Khrushchev confronts Culture......Page 431 Part V. Collective Leadership 1964-70......Page 452 16. After Khrushchev......Page 454 17. The Avant-Garde and the Middle Group......Page 463 18. 1967. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Revolution......Page 485 19. 1968-70. Reflection and Retrenchment......Page 491 Part VI Developments and Expansions 1970-81......Page 512 20. From the Lenin Centennial to the Death of Shostakovich......Page 514 21. Dissatisfactions, Directives, and Defections......Page 598 Appendix: Conversation with Maxim Shostakovich......Page 659 Addendum: New Dates......Page 664 Notes......Page 666 Selected Bibliography......Page 694 Index......Page 705