The formation of the Composers' Union, 1932-41 -- Administering the creative process -- Composers on the march, 1941-45 -- Zhdanovshchina and the Ogolevets affair -- Brouhaha! : party intervention and professional consolidation, 1948 -- Anticosmopolitanism and the music profession, 1949-53 -- The results of party intervention -- Muzfond, royalties, and popularity -- Elite hierarchies -- "Most respected comrade-- " : informal networks in the Stalinist music world.