1st Edition
Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Overview and Literature Review
1.2 Singing Stagnation: Historical Context
1.3 Howling Wolves: Theory and Methodology
1.4 Summary of Chapters
Chapter 2
Stepping Over the Threshold: Shostakovich’s Blok Cycle
2.1 Introduction to an Ending
2.2 Intersections of Svoy, Vnye, and Artistic Utterance
2.3 The Blok Cycle
2.4 Transcendence and Conclusions
Chapter 3
Georgy Sviridov and the Soviet Betrayal of Rus′
3.1 Rendering Lyric Poetry, Song, and Nationalism ‘Appropriately Soviet’
- State ‘Inclusion’ of Nationalist Ideology, 1953–1982
3.3 Russia Cast Adrift
3.4 Conclusion: Sviridov’s ‘Great Retreat’ from the Present?
Chapter 4
Eschatological Tenderness: Valentin Silvestrov’s Stupeni
4.1 Introduction: Birth of the Subject
4.2 Faith in the Time of Cruel Miracles: Social-Cultural Context
4.3 Stupeni: The Beginning of Absolute Dying
4.4 Conclusion: Loss of Form by the Subject
Chapter 5
Conclusion
5.1 Echoes and Repercussions
5.2 Future Research
Biography
Richard Louis Gillies is a lecturer and scholar specialising in the music, poetry, and cultural practices of Russia and the Soviet Union during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
