Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Musical Examples

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Bread, Art, and Soviet Power: Musicians in Revolution and Civil War

2. The Peculiarities of the Soviet Modern: NEP Culture and the Promotion of “Contemporary” Music

3. The Three Faces of the Musical Left

4. Of “Cast-Off Barroom Garbage” and “Bold Revolutionary Songs”: The Problem of Popular Music, 1923–1926

5. Politics and Patronage: State Agencies and the Development of Cultural Policy During NEP

6. “Training Future Cadres”: Modernization and the Limits of Reform at the Moscow Conservatory

7. The Music of 1927: Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution and the Centennial of Beethoven’s Death

8. Cultural Revolution

Epilogue

Glossary

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Amy Nelson is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech.

Reviews

"Music for the Revolution is a gripping account of one of the great cultural struggles in early Soviet Russia. Written by a professional historian and a trained musician, the book offers a grand synthesis marked by great erudition, superb research, and fair-minded judgments." -Richard Stites, Georgetown University"