Communism and Culture: An Introduction

Preface\nAcknowledgments\nContents\n1 Communism and Culture\n	The Commissars and the Creators\n	The PROLETKULT\n	Art and Power\n	The End of Art and the Construction of Life\n	Social Condensers\n	A Literature of Fact\n	A Photograph by Rodchenko\n	Fellow Travelers\n2 Stalinist Culture\n	Socialist Realism\n	The Moscow Metro\n	Stalin and Culture\n	Returning Home\n		The Circus\n	Stalinist Culture as Mythocracy\n	Strategies of Resistance\n	The Stalin’s Epigram\n	The Stalin Cult\n		Zhdanovschina\n3 De-Stalinization\n	The Thaw\n	Fadeev’s Suicide\n	Breaking with the Big Lie\n	Mao: Reform or Trap?\n		The Cranes Are Flying\n	Pasternak’s Nobel Prize\n	The Manezh Affair\n	The Bulldozers Exhibition\n	The Solzhenitsyn Effect\n	Thaw and Freeze in Romania\n		Glasnost\n4 Censorship\n	Censorship and Self-Censorship\n		Maya Plisetskaya, Censored\n	The “Unknown” Girl from Minsk\n	Marx, Groucho, and Dali’s Telegram\n5 Counterculture\n	Stilyagi\n	Rockers and Hippies\n	Tamizdat and Samizdat\n	Political Jokes\n	The Bards\n6 Picasso, the Most Celebrated Communist After Stalin and Mao Zedong\n7 Mao’s Cultural Revolution\n8 The Che Image\n9 Epilog: What Remains? Of Dreams, Passions, and Ashes\nSelected Bibliography\nIndex