Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
General Introduction
Part I. Soviet Copyright in the Era of Real Socialism: The Period from 1917 until 1985
Title I. Creativity and Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union's Cultural Sector
Introduction
Chapter I. Lenin's Opinions on Culture
Introduction
Section 1. A Marxist View of Art and Culture
Section 2. The Leading Role of the Vanguard Party
Section 3. An Instrumental View of Art
Section 4. The Assimilation of Bourgeois Culture
Section 5. The Priority of Raising the Cultural Level of the (Rural) Populace.

Chapter II. The Instruments of Communist Cultural Policy
Introduction
Section 1. The Monopoly on Enterprise in the Cultural Sector
Introduction
1. The Public Cultural Sector
1.1. State Ownership
1.2. State Enterprises
1.3. State Institutions
1.4. Planned Management of the Cultural Sector
2. The Quasi-Public Cultural Sector
3. Room for Private Initiative in the Cultural Sector?
4. Conclusion
Section 2. The Communist View on Freedom of Speech and Art
Introduction
Subsection 1. Human Rights in Communist Theory and Practice.

Subsection 2. Freedom of Speech and Cultural Rights and Liberties
1. Some Cultural-Historical Remarks
2. Freedom of Speech and of the Press
2.1. The Constitutional Principle
2.2. Limitations to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press
2.2.1. Introduction
2.2.2. Preventive Measures
2.2.3. Criminal Repressive Measures
3. Cultural Rights and Freedoms
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Freedom of Artistic Creation
3.2.1. The Principle
3.2.2. The Relationship with Copyright
3.3. The Right to Cultural Consumption
Subsection 3. The Freedom of Association.

Subsection 4. Conclusion
Section 3. Conclusion Concerning Communist Cultural Policy
Title II. The History and Specificity of Socialist Copyright Law
Chapter I. The History of Russian Copyright to 1985
Section 1. Czarist Russia
1. The Period to 1887
2. 1887-1917
Section 2. The Soviet Period
1. 1917-1922
2. 1922-1928
3. 1928-1960
4. 1961-1973
5. 1973-1985
Section 3. Conclusion
Chapter II. An Experiment Gone Wrong? The USSR's Accession to the UCC
Introduction
Section 1. A Dual System
Introduction.

1. Two Definitions of the Word "Publication"
2. Two Forms of Contract and the Simultaneous Transferability and Non-Transferability of Rights
Section 2. The UCC as a Trojan Horse
Section 3. The UCC as a Pandora's Box
Section 4. Conclusion
Part II. System Transformation in the Period 1985-2000
Introduction
Title I. Perestroika and Its Effects on State, Party, and Culture
Chapter I. Perestroika and the Fall of the CPSU and the USSR
Introduction
Section 1. Key Concepts in Gorbachev's Reform Policy
Section 2. The Decline of Communism and the Soviet State.

1. The Fall of the Communist Party.