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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 ...