The Symphony in the Soviet Union

Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester
Department Name: Arts Languages and Cultures

Abstract

An account of the survival and adaptation of the Symphony under the vacillating ideological and cultural pressures of the Soviet Union, in four large chronological ordered parts:
1. The pre-Revolution Russian Symphony (pre-1917)
2. Bolshevik Pluralism and the Soviet Symphony (1917-35)
3. The Soviet Symphony and Socialist Realism (1935-53)
4. The Soviet Symphony in the era of Thaw, Stagnation and Perestroika (1953-91)

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