This publication is based on the edition: D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 29, Muzyka Publishers, Moscow, 1983, collated with the author’s manuscript kept in the Russian National Museum of Music titled “Cantata about the Party”—rec. gr. 32, f. 25. The piano score is also referred to when necessary—D. Shostakovich, Collected Works, in 42 volumes, Vol. 30, Muzyka Publishers, Moscow, 1983.