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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Volkov, Solomon.     Subjects     Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.     Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.     Composers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Volkov, Solomon.       by title:      Shostakovich and Sta...         MARC Display

Shostakovich and Stalin [electronic resource] : the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator / Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. by Volkov, Solomon. New York : Knopf, 2004. Subjects Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.   Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.   Composers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D930336C-EA66-495D-A646-F54BD85131B7 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/D93/033/6C/ShostakovichandStalinTheExtraordinary9780307427724.epub Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D930336C-EA66-495D-A646-F54BD85131B7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{D930336C-EA66-495D-A646-F54BD85131B7}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780307427724 (electronic bk.) 0307427722 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits Edition:  1st ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that." So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov'who cowrote Shostakovich's controversial 1979 memoir, Testimony'describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer's life and work. Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the "holy fool" in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich's contemporaries'Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them'fell victim to Stalin's manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality. This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century's greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants. From the Hardcover edition.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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