..., this article contributes to our understanding of the cultural Cold War as a lived and performed experience. © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California 2019 space race Soviet Union Cold War popular music Dmitri Shostakovich Vano Muradeli Music and the Making of the Cosmonaut Everyman...

... herself had been written out entirely. The negotiated process by which Polina became The Decembrists reveals much about the evolving relationship between music and power in the Soviet Union, especially in the high-stakes realm of Socialist Realist opera, in which a suitable exemplar had yet to be produced...