Fear and the muse kept watch : the Russian masters--from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein--under Stalin /
"Can great art be produced in a police state? Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history. Nevertheless, Stalinist Russia produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense power--from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the...
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New York :
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2015
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Table of Contents:
- Eisenstein in the Jazz Age
- The Hooligan Poet and the Proletarians
- The Master
- Corrupting Gorky
- The Stalin Epigram
- Babel's Silence
- Pasternak's Sickness of the Soul
- Stalin and the Silver Screen
- Stalin's Nights at the Opera
- Pasternak in the Great Terror
- Sholokhov, Babel, and the Policeman's Wife
- Altering History
- Anna of all the Russias
- When Stalin Returned to the Opera
- After Stalin
- Eisenstein in the Jazz Age
- The hooligan poet and the proletarians
- The master
- Corrupting Gorky
- The Stalin epigram
- Babel's silence
- Pasternak's sickness of the soul
- Stalin and the silver screen
- Stalin's nights at the opera
- Pasternak in the Great Terror
- Sholokhov, Babel, and the policeman's wife
- Altering history
- Anna of all the Russias
- When Stalin returned to the opera
- After Stalin
- note: 1 Eisenstein in the Jazz Age
- 2. Hooligan Poet and the Proletarians
- 3. Master
- 4. Corrupting Gorky
- 5. Stalin Epigram
- 6. Babel's Silence
- 7. Pasternak's Sickness of the Soul
- 8. Stalin and the Silver Screen
- 9. Stalin's Nights at the Opera
- 10. Pasternak in the Great Terror
- 11. Sholokhov, Babel, and the Policeman's Wife
- 12. Altering History
- 13. Anna of All the Russias
- 14. When Stalin Returned to the Opera
- 15. After Stalin.