Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator by Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. Bouis

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator

Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. Bouis

370 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective slow-paced
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Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that...' So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who spent his life battling for the right to create his works under the Soviet Union's totalita...

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