Simon Morrison, “The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years” (Oxford UP, 2009)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
20/02/2009 1h 5min
Simon Morrison, “The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years” (Oxford UP, 2009)

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In the Soviet Union, artists lived lives that were at once charmed and cursed. Though relatively poor, the USSR poured resources into the arts. The Party created a large, well-funded cultural elite of which only two things were expected. First, that they practice their art. Second–and here’s the rub–that they...
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