Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Songs for Fat People xxi
4. Introduction: A Quick Comment Before we Begin in Earnest 3
5. In Practice: Eleven Famous Performers, Loved by Tens of Millions
6. Grace Under Friendly Fire: The Gypsy Romances of Izabella Iur’Eva and Tamara Tsereteli 9
7. The Romance in Exile: Iurii Morfessi and Petr Leshchenko 38
8. Internal(Ized) Exile: The Mystery of Vadim Kozin 64
9. Exit Stage Left: Aleksandr Vertinskii and Cabaret 87
10. Affectation and Buffoonery: Leonid Utesov and Odessa Jazz 114
11. Klavdiia Shul’zhenko: “Let’s Have a Smoke, Comrade!” 142
12. Mark Bernes: Hushed Songs from the Silver Screen 169
13. Prison and Prestige: The Folk Songs of Lidiia Ruslanova and Liudmila Zykina 200
14. In Theory: Soviet Entertainment Seen From Today’s Perspectives
15. Time to Speculate and Take Stock: 1 January 2000 in Russian Light Entertainment 237
16. Conclusion and Unsolicited Encore 253
17. Notes 273
18. Audio-Visual Sources 343
19. Index 353