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and songs, and the reader is required to make the necessary connections. In addition, MacFadyen's prose in these chapters is not very accessible and will bewilder all but the best undergraduates. On the other hand, they can skip these sections and still bene- fit from the illuminating discussion of the singers and their music. The difficulty of accepting MacFadyen's sweeping conclusion is that he contends that Cold War rhetoric continues to define scholarship in terms of its grand narrative of twentieth-century Russian culture that is evaluated "in degrees of compliance with or deviance from Soviet ideology." (Songs, p. 3) While
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