Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. A Note on Spelling xvii
6. Glossary xix
7. CHAPTER 1. Introduction: On Power and Culture 1
8. CHAPTER 2. The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: The Class Issue in Party Politics and Culture 16
9. CHAPTER 3. Professors and Soviet Power 37
10. CHAPTER 4. Sex and Revolution 65
11. CHAPTER 5. The Soft Line on Culture and Its Enemies 91
12. CHAPTER 6. Cultural Revolution as Class War 115
13. CHAPTER 7. Stalin and the Making of a New Elite 149
14. CHAPTER 8. The Lady Macbeth Affair: Shostakovich and the Soviet Puritans 183
15. CHAPTER 9. Becoming Cultured: Socialist Realism and the Representation of Privilege and Taste 216
16. CHAPTER 10. Cultural Orthodoxies under Stalin 238
17. Index 257