This volume of essays provides an overview of the transformation that the study of Russian music since 1917 has undergone since glasnost’, both in Russia itself and outside it. Prior to this, scholars on both sides of the Iron Curtain confronted formidable practical difficulties. In the USSR, the operation of strict censorship and ideological constraints seriously hindered the development of scholarship. In the West, ideological perspectives engendered by the Cold War hindered an objective appra...

• Introduction
• Part I: Russian Music History and Historiography Today
• Russian Musicological Scholarship of the Last Two Decades: Achievements and Lacunae
• Soviet Music Studies outside Russia: glasnost and after
• The Adventures of Soviet Music in the West: Historical Highlights
• Soviet Music in Post-Soviet Musicology: First Twenty Years and Beyond
• Part II: Reappraising the Soviet Past
• The Phenomenon of 'Translation' in Russian Musical Culture of the 1920s and Early 1930s: The Qu...