The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia 9781501724084

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Spelling
Glossary
CHAPTER 1. Introduction: On Power and Culture
CHAPTER 2. The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: The Class Issue in Party Politics and Culture
CHAPTER 3. Professors and Soviet Power
CHAPTER 4. Sex and Revolution
CHAPTER 5. The Soft Line on Culture and Its Enemies
CHAPTER 6. Cultural Revolution as Class War
CHAPTER 7. Stalin and the Making of a New Elite
CHAPTER 8. The Lady Macbeth Affair: Shostakovich and the Soviet Puritans
CHAPTER 9. Becoming Cultured: Socialist Realism and the Representation of Privilege and Taste
CHAPTER 10. Cultural Orthodoxies under Stalin
Index

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THE CULTURAL FRONT POWER AND CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

SHEILA FITZPATRICK

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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