Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw
by
Peter J Schmelz
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more...