List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1 POPULAR CULTURE, EVERYDAY LIFE, IDEOLOGY - Working-Class Culture and Political Culture in the 1930s; J.Barber - Stalinism and Popular Culture; R.Robin - Stalinism and Carnival; R.Sartorti - Stalinism and the Restructuring of Revolutionary Utopianism; R.Stites - PART 2 ART - Presuppositions of Socialist Realism; A.Flaker - Problems in the Study of Stalinist Culture; I.Golomstock - The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde; B.Groys - Socialist Realism as Institutional Practice: Observations on the Interpretation of the Works of Art of the Stalin Period; J.Guldberg - The Avant-Garde and Art of the Stalinist Era; V.Rakitin - PART 3 LITERATURE - Education and Conversion: The Road to the New Man in the Totalitarian Bildungsroman; H.G nther - Satire under Stalinism: Zoshchenko's Golubaya kniga and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita; J.U.Peters - PART 4 ARCHITECTURE - Moscow in the 1930s and the Emergence of a New City; V.Paperny - The Ultimate Palladianist, Outliving Revolution and the Stalin Period: Architect Ivan V.Zholtovsky; A.M.Vogt - PART 5 FILM - From the Avant-Garde to Socialist Realism: Some Reflections on the Signifying Procedures in Eisenstein's Stachka and Donskoi's Raduga; B.Bollag - The Annexation of History: Eisenstein and the Ivan Grozny Cult of the 1940s; B.Uhlenbruch - Index