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Experimentation 1917-21Introduction. Before the Revolution
Music during the Early Years of the Revolution
Consolidation 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 Conservatories
Regimentation 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 Trial
Liberalization 1953-64From the Death of Stalin to the Twentieth Party Congress
The Cultural Honeymoon
Moscow, Autumn 1962
Research, Education and Publishing
Khrushchev confronts Culture
Collective Leadership 1964-70After Khrushchev
The Avant-Garde and the Middle Group
1967. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Revolution
1968-70. Reflection and Retrenchment
Developments and Expansions 1970-81From the Lenin Centennial to the Death of Shostakovich
Dissatisfactions, Directives, and Defections
Appendix: Conversation with Maxim Shostakovich
Addendum: New Dates
Selected Bibliography