Squandered on Communism
Shostakovich During the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Rabinowitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 69-86 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-028-03-05 |
| OpenAlex | W2000787427 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Introduction: Sixteen-Inch Guns and Just Plain Music Covering the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in 1956, Newsweek smugly remarked that "political party conventions elsewhere do not, as a rule, concern themselves with culture. The Soviet Communist Party has a long record of jumping in—and on—culture with both feet" ("Thaw Exposed" 1956, 88). Especially with forty years of hindsight, it is a striking comment; and given the ways in which political conservatives, who so persistently denounced Soviet political intervention in the aesthetic, have today made culture a central focus of their own political program, it would be easy to take pleasure in revealing the inconsistency in their position
Communism · Hindsight bias · Pleasure · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |