Includes bibliographical references and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt: Introduction :tsarist-era heroes in Stalinist mass culture and propaganda William Nickell: Tolstoi in 1928 : in the mirror of the revolution Kevin M.F. Platt: Rehabilitation and afterimage : Aleksei Tolstoi's many returns to Peter the Great Anatolii Danat: "At Aleksei Tolstoi's," Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937 A.M. Dubrovsky: Chronicle of a poet's downfall : Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian history, and The epic heroes NKVD report, 1936: The reaction of writers and artists to the banning of D. Bednyi's comic opera Andrew B. Wachtel: The adventures of a Leskov story in Soviet Russia, or, The socialist realist opera that wasn't (P.M. Kerzhentsev): "Muddle instead of music," Pravda, 28 January 1936 Maureen Perrie: The terrible tsar as comic hero : Mikhail Bulgakov's Ivan Vasil'evich David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt: Terribly pragmatic : rewriting the history of Ivan IV's reign, 1937-1956 A.S. Shcherbakov: "Memorandum to Stalin concerning A.N. Tolstoi's play Ivan the Terrible," 1941-1943 Stephanie Sandler: The 1937 Pushkin jubilee as epic trauma Mikhail Zoshchenko: "The glory of the Russian people," Pravda, 10 February 1937"What I would like to say about the late poet," Krokodil 5 (1937) Mikhail Zoshchenko: "A speech given during the Pushkin Days at a meeting of the Tenants' Cooperative on Malaia Perinnaia, No. 7," Krokodil 5 (1937) David Brandenberger: The popular reception of S.M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii Mikhail Kol'tsov: "An epic hero-people," Pravda, 7 November 1938 Susan Beam Eggers: Reinventing the enemy : the villains of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet stage B. Mordvinov: "Ivan Susanin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater," Pravda, 7 February 1939 David Powelstock: Fashioning "our Lermontov" : canonization and conflict in the Stalinist 1930s A. Ragozin: "In the poet's defense," Pravda, 25 August 1939 V.I. Blium, V. Stepanov: An internationalist's complaint to Stalin and the ensuing scandal, 31 January 1939 [and] 16 February 1939 James von Geldern.: Conclusion :epic revisionism and the crafting of a Soviet public |
