# Shostakovich and Stalin

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- Authors: [Solomon Volkov](https://www.bookquiver.com/solomon-volkov)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2007-12-18

## Description

“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...

## Editions

### Shostakovich and Stalin

- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0742-772-4
- Published: 2007-12-18
- Language: en_US