Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and index.
Introduction -- The Archaic Greek dithyramb in Russia, for the Russians -- Evolution and the dithyramb -- Early symbolist interest in the dithyramb -- Viacheslav Ivanov and the dithyramb -- Fyodor Sologub's dithyrambs -- More symbolist dithyrambs after Ivanov -- Futurist dithyrambs -- Mayakovsky's dithyrambs -- Dancing the dithyramb -- Meyerhold and Evreinov do the dithyramb -- The dithyramb after the 1917 Revolution -- Conclusion