Preface

Introduction: The Ecology of Revolution

Revolution as Revelation: The Avant-Garde

Imperial Petersburg, 1913

Masquerade

Theater and Revolution in the New Republic

Petrograd: Ritual Capital of Revolutionary Russia

NEP and the "Art of Capitulation"

Revolutionary Culture Meets the Jazz Age

The Establishment of Soviet Culture

Promethean Linguistics

Straight Talk and the Campaign against Wagner

The Sacralization of Everyday Life

The Ultimate Cultural Revolution

Epilogue: The Thirties

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index