Part I : Documents. Shostakovich : letters to his mother, 1923-1927 / selected by Dmitrii Frederiks and Rosa Sadykhova ; introduced, and with commentary by Rosa Sadykhova ; translated by Rolanda Norton --
Responses of Shostakovich to a questionnaire on the psychology of the creative process / prepared by Roman Ilich Gruber ; edited and annotated by staff researchers of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow ; translated, with additional notes by Malcolm Hamrick Brown --
Stalin and Shostakovich : letters to a "friend" / Leonid Maximenkov --
"The phenomenon of the Seventh" : a documentary essay on Shostakovich's "War" symphony / Christopher H. Gibbs.
Part II : Essays. Shostakovich as industrial saboteur : observations on The Bolt / Simon Morrison --
The nose and the Fourteenth symphony : an affinity of opposites / Levon Hakobian ; translated by Dimitri Shapovalov --
Shostakovich and the Russian literary tradition / Caryl Emerson --
Fried chicken in the bird-cherry trees / Gerard McBurney --
Shostakovich and his pupils / David Fanning --
Shostakovich's "twelve-tone" compositions and the politics and practice of Soviet serialism / Peter J. Schmelz --
Listening to Shostakovich / Leon Botstein.
