Product Description: Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"æIgor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovichæ immediately come to mind. Yet during the turbulent decade following the Bolshevik Revolution, Stravinsky and Prokofiev lived abroad and Shostakovich was just finishing his conservatory training...read more

Product Description: The question of how music and politics interact has always aroused passionate debate, and it looms large in this study of the Soviet proletarian music movement. The proletarian music movement was the driving force behind many of the developments in early Soviet musical life, and its influence was felt long after the groups that belonged to it disbanded in 1932...read more