Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953

Author/Contributor(s):	Tomoff, Kiril
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	11/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the questions that Kiril Tomoff seeks to answer in Creative Union, the first book about any of...