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Experimentation 1917-21. Before the revolution -- Music during the early years of the revolution -- Consolidation 1921-32. Musical life under the new economic policy and the five year plan -- Opera, ballet and orchestral music of the 1920s -- Research and education, the institutes and conservatories -- Regimentation 1932-53. The resolution of 1932 -- Opera, ballet and orchestral music of the 1930s -- The Great Patriotic War, Soviet War Symphonies -- The Zhdanov era -- Musicologists on trial -- Liberalization 1953-64. From the death of Stalin to the twentieth party congress -- The cultural Honeymoon -- Moscow, autumn 1962 -- Research, education and publishing -- Khrushchev confronts culture -- Collective leadership 1964-70. After Khrushchev -- The avant-garde and the middle group -- 1967 the fiftieth anniversary of the revolution -- 1968-70 reflection and retrenchment -- Developments and expansions 1970-81. From the Lenin centennial to the death of Shostakovich ; Dissatisfactions, directives, and defections -- Appendix. Conversation with Maxim Shostakovich. |
