On Pyr'ev's musicals, see especially Evgenii Dobrenko, "Muzyka vmesto sumbura (Narodnost' kak problema sovetskoi muzykal'noi kinokomedii)," Revue des etudes slaves 67, 2-3 (1995): 407-33; Richard Taylor, "Singing on the Steppes for Stalin: Ivan Pyr'ev and the Kolkhoz Musical in Soviet Cinema," Slavic Review 58, 1 (1999): 143-59; and Maiia Turovskaia, "I.

2: 51-71; and Maiia Turovskaia, "Fil'my 'kholodnoi voiny' kak dokumenty emotsii vremeni," in Istoriia strany: Istoriia kino, ed.