Whereas it has been widely assumed in the public that the Soviet music policy system had a “top-down” structure of control and command that directly affected musical creativity, in fact my research shows that the relations between the different levels of the music policy system were vague, and the viewpoints of its representatives differed from each other. Because the representatives of the party and government organs controlling operas could not define which kind of music represented Socialist Realism, the system as it developed during the 1930s and 1940s did not function effectively enough in order to create such a centralised control of Soviet music, still less could Soviet operas fulfil the highly ambiguous aesthetics of Socialist Reali...
This article explores the continuities and discontinuities of pre-Revolutionary intellectual traditi...
This PhD dissertation examines changes in the Soviet music political discussions from the revolution...
This study presents how music was affected during the political climate of the Soviet Union from Jos...
Arvosteltu teos: The struggle for control of Soviet music from 1932 to 1948: Socialist realism vs. W...
Venäläisiin arkistolähteisiin pohjaavassa väitöstutkimuksessaan Simo Mikkonen käsittelee Neuvostolii...
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions whi...
The politicization of musical life in Stalin's Russia is a subject which has attracted a great deal ...
The critic, composer, and musicologist Boris Asafiev (1884 - 1949) played a central role in the deve...
textDmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Sonata in 1934, a crucial date regarding developments in So...
textDmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Sonata in 1934, a crucial date regarding developments in So...
UID/EAT/00693/2013Socialist and other totalitarian regimes from their beginnings tried to establish ...
In the following discussion, the First and Fourth Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich will be analyzed...
In her descriptive and lengthy tome, Finnish historian Meri Herrala uses Soviet opera as a lens to e...
It is opera, and opera alone that brings you close to the people, that endears your music to the rea...
Soviet cultural politics was completely determined in the 1930s and remained unchangeable almost unt...
This article explores the continuities and discontinuities of pre-Revolutionary intellectual traditi...
This PhD dissertation examines changes in the Soviet music political discussions from the revolution...
This study presents how music was affected during the political climate of the Soviet Union from Jos...
Arvosteltu teos: The struggle for control of Soviet music from 1932 to 1948: Socialist realism vs. W...
Venäläisiin arkistolähteisiin pohjaavassa väitöstutkimuksessaan Simo Mikkonen käsittelee Neuvostolii...
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions whi...
The politicization of musical life in Stalin's Russia is a subject which has attracted a great deal ...
The critic, composer, and musicologist Boris Asafiev (1884 - 1949) played a central role in the deve...
textDmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Sonata in 1934, a crucial date regarding developments in So...
textDmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Sonata in 1934, a crucial date regarding developments in So...
UID/EAT/00693/2013Socialist and other totalitarian regimes from their beginnings tried to establish ...
In the following discussion, the First and Fourth Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich will be analyzed...
In her descriptive and lengthy tome, Finnish historian Meri Herrala uses Soviet opera as a lens to e...
It is opera, and opera alone that brings you close to the people, that endears your music to the rea...
Soviet cultural politics was completely determined in the 1930s and remained unchangeable almost unt...
This article explores the continuities and discontinuities of pre-Revolutionary intellectual traditi...
This PhD dissertation examines changes in the Soviet music political discussions from the revolution...
This study presents how music was affected during the political climate of the Soviet Union from Jos...