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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, 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,<i>Testimony—</i>describes how this
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- Author
- Solomon Volkov
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375410826
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Soviet Union, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (97 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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