Soviet culture and power
Subtitle: a history in documents, 1917-1953
By: Katerina Clark and Evgeny Dobrenko ; with Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov ; narrative, text preparation, and commentary by Katerina Clark and Evgeny Dobrenko ; documents compiled by Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
Contributors: Dobrenko, E. A.; Artizov, Andreĭ.; Naumov, Oleg V.
Series: Annals of Communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780300106466
Subjects: Politics and culture -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Power (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Communism and intellectuals -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Cultural policy -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Vlastʹ i khudozhestvennai︠a︡ intelligent︠s︡ii︠a︡.
Notes: "This book is based on selections from a book of documents compiled by Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov and published in Russian as Vlastʹ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsiia : dokumenty TsK RKP(b)--VKP(b), VChK--OGPU--NKVD o kulʹturnoi politike, 1917-1953 gg (Power and the creative intelligentsia : documents (of the Communist Party and the secret Police) on cultural policy, 1917-1953) by Mezhdunarodny fond Demokratia (International Democracy Foundation), Moscow, 1999"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-482) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Prohibit travel . . ."; title: "The utterly indecent proposal to preserve the Bolshoi theater"; title: Organizing the "artistic milieu" : the era of NEP; title: The organization of proletarian art : the cultural revolution; title: "Gorky, whom no one takes seriously in politics"; title: "Work with the anti-Soviet intelligentsia"; title: The thirties; title: Introduction. the culture of high Stalinism, 1932 - 1941; title: The demise of RAPP; title: The writers' congress; title: The gorky factor; title: The union of Soviet writers; title: Stalin and the Moscow Art Theater; title: The anti-formalist campaign; title: The campaign for a patriotic culture; title: The censorship; title: Presenting the image of the leader; title: Stalin as patron-potentate; title: Reports on writers from the NKVD and Soviet officials; title: Petitions to Stalin; title: The Stalin-Sholokhov exchange; title: The forties  introduction. The culture of late Stalinism, 1941 - 1953; title: The literaryfFront:: the war; title: The literary front : Zhdanovism and beyond; title: The most important art; title: Moments musicaux; title: The revolution has ended at the point where it began.