Playing with Fire

CONTENTS

List of Plates

Acronyms

Transliteration

Introduction

1 Childhood and Youth: Nevel’, Petrograd

2 1919–1927: Baptism, University Studies, Philosophical Circles

3 1921–1927: Graduation and Start of a Musical Career

4 1928–1933: Leningrad–Moscow via Tbilisi

5 1933–1936: Moscow

6 1936–1941: The Moscow Conservatoire and Musical Projects

7 1941–1945: War and its Aftermath

8 1945–1953: The Anti-Formalist and Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaigns

9 1953–1960: The Thaw Years

10 1960–1970: The Final Decade

Endnotes

Appendix

Bibliography

Selected Discography

Acknowledgements

Index