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The Russian Masters - from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein - Under Stalin. Pp. x+342, notes, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves faintly foxed; New York, 2015. First edition. *'Asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history, under him Russia also produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense and lasting power - from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the film Alexander Nevsky, and the novels The Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago.' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180122
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