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Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Marina Frolova-Walker china as the old question ofChallenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music its ineffable Russianness Marina Frolova Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar in 1836 to the death of Stalin in 1953, the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed by the Russian state and its Soviet successor. The author identifies and discusses two central myths that dominated Russian