Epic revisionism Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - tsarist-era heroes in Stalinist mass culture and propaganda - David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt -- - Tolstoi in 1928 : in the mirror of the revolution - William Nickell -- - "Do we know how to celebrate jubilees?" Chitatel' i pisatel', 7 November 1928 - Novus -- - Rehabilitation and afterimage : Aleksei Tolstoi's many returns to Peter the Great - Kevin M.F. Platt -- - "At Aleksei Tolstoi's," Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937 - Anatolii Danat -- - Chronicle of a poet's downfall : Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian history, and The epic heroes - A.M. Dubrovsky -- - The reaction of writers and artists to the banning of D. Bednyi's comic opera - NKVD report, 1936 -- - The adventures of a Leskov story in Soviet Russia, or, The socialist realist opera that wasn't - Andrew B. Wachtel -- - "Muddle instead of music," Pravda, 28 January 1936 - (P.M. Kerzhentsev) -- - The terrible tsar as comic hero : Mikhail Bulgakov's Ivan Vasil'evich
- Maureen Perrie -- - Terribly pragmatic : rewriting the history of Ivan IV's reign, 1937-1956 - David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt -- - "Memorandum to Stalin concerning A.N. Tolstoi's play Ivan the Terrible," 1941-1943 - A.S. Shcherbakov -- - The 1937 Pushkin jubilee as epic trauma - Stephanie Sandler -- - "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) - Mikhail Zoshchenko -- - The popular reception of S.M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii - David Brandenberger -- - "An epic hero-people," Pravda, 7 November 1938 - Mikhail Kol'tsov -- - Reinventing the enemy : the villains of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet stage - Susan Beam Eggers -- - "Ivan Susanin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater," Pravda, 7 February 1939
- B. Mordvinov -- - Fashioning "our Lermontov" : canonization and conflict in the Stalinist 1930s - David Powelstock -- - "In the poet's defense," Pravda, 25 August 1939 - A. Ragozin -- - An internationalist's complaint to Stalin and the ensuing scandal, 31 January 1939 [and] 16 February 1939 - V.I. Blium, V. Stepanov -- - Conclusion - epic revisionism and the crafting of a Soviet public - James von Geldern