> Uh, is this supposed to exhaust all the artistic production that existed
> in the USSR?
Nah. Shostakovich was great, for example.
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/warsymphonies.html
> ... On January 26,Dzhugashvili himself, with other Party officials in
> tow, attended Lady Macbeth at the Bolshoi Theater. In the middle of the
> performance, the Leader and his henchmen walked out. Two days afterward,
> a Pravda editorial blasted Lady Macbeth, calling it "chaos in place of
> music"
Music under Soviet rule: Posts to DSCH-L (New Babylon II)
... For example, Katerina Clark, in her 1995 book Petersburg, Crucible of
Cultural
Revolution, introduces FEKS as "the contemporary masters of parody" in
early ...
http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/dschl/nbab2.html Katerina Clark wrote, "The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual, " (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)