Simo Mikkonen is Research associate in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where he also completed his PhD.
2009 0-7734-4835-7 The existing literature on music in Soviet society primarily discusses specific works or composers rather than the context within which music was produced. This book examines the relationship of art and politics in the Soviet Union during the early Stalinist phase, 1930s, leaning on extensive archival work.