Selected collection of music and art publications from the Soviet Union, beginning from the year 1917 until the early 1930s

This collection contains excerpts from Soviet music and cultural journals and newspapers published between 1917 and 1932. Selected articles were part of the study, which analysed formation of Soviet music politics from a conceptual historical perspective. The collection does not contain publications which are already available in digitized form online or publication of which is prohibitied. If the publication is already available online, link to the relevant source is provided in the ReadMe file.

The data was collected in the summer of 2019 in the Russian National Library and the Russian Institute of Art History (RIII) by photographing articles relevant to the research task. Photographs were converted into PDF form. The data was analysed with the Atlas.ti software which allows making notes and coding the data. The published collection contains only the original articles in PDF form and not the analysis process or notes from the Atlas.ti.

The collection does not contain full issues or volumes of the publications but selected articles. Photographing, storing and naming of full issues would not have been possible due to the extent of the data. In addition, the collection of the libraries were not complete and some of the issues or volumes were missing in the library collections. The published data collection is therefore a diverse and rich yet an incomplete representation of the early Soviet music and art publications. If the data is reused, it is important to note the gaps in the original collection and the selection of articles for a specific research task.