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Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi A Note on Conventions xiii Terms and Acronyms xv Introduction: Tsarist-Era Heroes in Stalinist Mass Culture and Propaganda  David Brandenberger and Kevin M. F. Platt Lev Tolstoi . Tolstoi in : In the Mirror of the Revolution  William Nickell . Press Commentary on the Tolstoi Centenary Celebration  Novus, “Do We Know How to Celebrate Jubilees?” Chitatel’ i pisatel’,  November  Peter the Great . Rehabilitation and Afterimage: Aleksei Tolstoi’s Many Returns to Peter the Great  Kevin M. F. Platt . Aleksei Tolstoi’s Remarks on the Film Peter I  Anatolii Danat, “At Aleksei Tolstoi’s,” Skorokhodovskii rabochii,  September  Contents The Epic Heroes . 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,  Nikolai Leskov . The Adventures of a Leskov Story in Soviet Russia, or the Socialist Realist Opera That Wasn’t  Andrew B. Wachtel . The Official Denunciation of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District  [P. M. Kerzhentsev], “Muddle Instead of Music,” Pravda,  January  Ivan the Terrible . The Terrible Tsar as Comic Hero: Mikhail Bulgakov’s Ivan Vasil’evich  Maureen Perrie . Terribly Pragmatic: Rewriting the History of Ivan IV’s Reign, –  David Brandenberger and Kevin M. F. Platt . Internal Debate within the Party Hierarchy about the Rehabilitation of Ivan the Terrible  A. S. Shcherbakov, “Memorandum to Stalin concerning A. N. Tolstoi’s Play Ivan the Terrible,” – Aleksandr Pushkin . The  Pushkin Jubilee as Epic Trauma  Stephanie Sandler . Editorial Eulogy of A. S. Pushkin  “The Glory of the Russian People,” Pravda,  February  vi Contents . The Pushkin Jubilee as Farce  Mikhail Zoshchenko, “What I Would Like to Say about the Late Poet,” Krokodil  (); “A Speech Given during the Pushkin Days at a Meeting of the Tenants’ Cooperative on Malaia Perinnaia, No. ,” Krokodil  () Aleksandr Nevskii . The Popular Reception of S. M. Eisenstein’s Aleksandr Nevskii  David Brandenberger . Aleksander Nevskii as Russian Patriot  Mikhail Kol’tsov, “An Epic Hero-People,” Pravda,  November  Ivan Susanin . Reinventing the Enemy: The Villains of Glinka’s Opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet Stage  Susan Beam Eggers . Official Praise for Ivan Susanin  B. A. Mordvinov, “Ivan Susanin on the Stage of the Bolshoi Theater,” Pravda,  February  Mikhail Lermontov . Fashioning “Our Lermontov”: Canonization and Conflict in the Stalinist s  David Powelstock . A Rare Voice of Caution  A. Ragozin, “In the Poet’s Defense,” Pravda,  August  Epilogue . An Internationalist’s Complaint to Stalin and the Ensuing Scandal  V. I. Blium,  January ; V. Stepanov,  February  Conclusion: Epic Revisionism and the Crafting of a Soviet Public  James von Geldern Archival Repository Abbreviations  Contributors  Index  Contents vii ...

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