# Shostakovich and Stalin

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- Book: [Shostakovich and Stalin](https://www.bookquiver.com/solomon-volkov/shostakovich-and-stalin) ([Shostakovich and Stalin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/solomon-volkov/shostakovich-and-stalin.md))
- Authors: [Solomon Volkov](https://www.bookquiver.com/solomon-volkov)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0742-772-4
- Published: 2007-12-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## 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...