... or practice of Socialist Realism in music. It also explores the prize trajectories of individual composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Finally, it describes the new environment in which the Stalin Prize Committee worked from the beginning of 1948 onwards...

... arts culture ministry expressionism Goldenweiser Alexander Kuybyshev city Lenin Prize 1957– Myaskovsky Nikolai Socialist Realism Tbilisi Tolstoy Alexei Beethoven Ludwig van formalism Gerasimov Alexander Glinka Mikhail Mikhoels Solomon Moskvin Ivan Prokofiev Sergei Sholokhov Mikhail...

...This chapter examines various musical genres that lie outside highbrow art music within the context of the Stalin Prize. Socialist Realism was often envisioned as a way for higher and lower varieties of art to meet on an equal footing. High art would descend from its ivory tower, while the folk...

... O Stalin Bolshevik party proletarian Culture socialist Realism Soviet culture art cinema The relationship between the Bolshevik Party and the arts was never an easy one. According to Plekhanov, “Social consciousness is determined by social existence. For a man who maintains such a view...

... explores romanticism as a component from the very beginning of Socialist Realism, which proclaimed “life in its revolutionary development” as its object. It explains how Socialist Realism absorbed revolutionary romanticism and transformed it into state romanticism, which assumed its definitive shape...

... tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of ‘Socialist Realism’, offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through...

... the return of satire and psychology in the KSP nominations and how the disruption of the Stalin Prize cycle affected the opera. Finally, it looks at Dmitry Shostakovich's reemergence in the limelight, with particular emphasis on how his music sparked a KSP debate over the issue of Socialist Realism...

...This book concludes with a discussion of issues of listening in the Stalin Prize Committee (KSP) and how the Stalin Prize can illuminate the concept or practice of Socialist Realism in music. Instead of looking at the small-scale details of the KSP's decision-making process, it considers...

... and the arts to history, psychology, education, religion, and law. Stalin adopted a new official line for literature called Socialist Realism. Absolute economic determinism in part characterized the kind of historical thought imposed by Mikhail Pokrovsky in the name of the party. Ideology Individual role...

... Ushakov” in 1953. The chapter emphasizes how historicism had to become part of Soviet aesthetic doctrine, part of the system of flexible, dialectically contradirectional principles of Socialist Realism, and to become a hybrid of “the truth of life” and “revolutionary romanticism.” It discusses...

...This chapter pays close attention to explicit party-mindedness, which is intrinsic to Socialist Realism. It discusses “party-mindedness” as a modus operandi, an ability and willingness to change in response to an impulse imposed from the outside, and a principle of direct political action...

...This chapter describes the effectiveness of politico-ideological transformations that is assured by the accessibility of propaganda. It talks about the “popular spirit” as a key category of Socialist Realism, which produces the image of the people as the Stalinist Regime wanted to see them. It also...