Revisiting My Conclusion on Soviet Music Historiography
In my PhD thesis, I conducted a content analysis of 13 books specializing in the history of Soviet music. For each book, I examined its responses to a set of key historical questions, including: Why were the ASM (Association for Contemporary Music) and RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) dissolved in 1932? Why did Prokofiev return to the USSR in 1936? Why was Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk censored, while Dzerzhinsky’s Quiet Flows the Don was praised?...