Schwarz Boris. Music and Music Life in Soviet Russia. Enlarged Edition, 1917-1981

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. — xiii, 722 p. — ISBN-10: 0253339561; ISBN-13: 978-0253339560.The most recent period of Soviet music history is fascinating if mysterious, era. With death, in 1975. of Dmitrii Shostakovich, whose immense international stature overshadowed the emergence of younger generations of Soviet composers, a vacuum appears to have been created. Who will sustain the rich tradition of Russian musical creativity? Are there any likely candidates? Schwarz’s approach to these questions and his overall assessment of the situation is drawn from “sanctioned" sources (for example. Sovetskaia muzyka and the Information Bulletin of the Union of Soviet Composers) and, to a lesser extent, the reports of Western journalists and recent Emigres.Preface to the Enlarged EditionExperimentation 1917-21Introduction. Before the Revolution
Music during the Early Years of the RevolutionConsolidation 1921-32Musical Life under the New Economic Policy and the Five Year Plan
Opera, Ballet and Orchestral Music of the 1920’s
Research and Education, the Institutes and ConservatoriesRegimentation 1932-53The Resolution of 1932
Opera, Ballet and Orchestral Music of the 1930’s
The Great Patriotic War, Soviet War Symphonies
The Zhdanov Era
Musicologists on TrialLiberalization 1953-64From the Death of Stalin to the Twentieth Party Congress
The Cultural Honeymoon
Moscow, Autumn 1962
Research, Education and Publishing
Khrushchev confronts CultureCollective Leadership 1964-70After Khrushchev
The Avant-Garde and the Middle Group
1967. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Revolution
1968-70. Reflection and RetrenchmentDevelopments and Expansions 1970-81From the Lenin Centennial to the Death of Shostakovich
Dissatisfactions, Directives, and DefectionsAppendix: Conversation with Maxim Shostakovich
Addendum: New DatesNotes
Selected Bibliography