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008    150302s2015    nyu      b    001 0deng   
010      2015008415 
020    9781595580566|q(hardback) 
020    1595580565|q(hardback) 
020    |z9781620970799|q(ebook) 
035    (OCoLC)891618853 
037    |bPerseus Distribution Services, 1094 Flex Dr, Jackson, TN,
       USA, 38301-5070|nSAN 631-760X 
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050 00 DK268.3|b.M35 2015 
082 00 700.92/247|223 
084    HIS032000|aLIT004240|aART015100|2bisacsh 
100 1  McSmith, Andy. 
245 10 Fear and the muse kept watch :|bthe Russian masters--from 
       Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein--
       under Stalin /|cAndy McSmith. 
264  1 New York :|bThe New Press,|c2015. 
300    339 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Eisenstein in the Jazz Age -- The hooligan poet and the 
       proletarians -- The master -- Corrupting Gorky -- The 
       Stalin epigram -- Babel's silence -- Pasternak's sickness 
       of the soul -- Stalin and the silver screen -- Stalin's 
       nights at the opera -- Pasternak in the Great Terror -- 
       Sholokhov, Babel, and the policeman's wife -- Altering 
       history -- Anna of all the Russias -- When Stalin returned
       to the opera -- After Stalin. 
520 2  "Can great art be produced in a police state? Josif Stalin
       ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history. 
       Nevertheless, Stalinist Russia produced an outpouring of 
       artistic works of immense 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. More than a dozen great 
       artists were visible enough for Stalin to take an interest
       in them--which meant he chose whether they were to live in
       luxury and be publicly honored or to be sent to the 
       Lubyanka for torture and execution. Journalist and 
       novelist Andy McSmith brings together the stories of these
       artists--including Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak, Dmitri 
       Shostakovich, and many others--revealing how they pursued 
       their art often at great personal risk. It was a world in 
       which the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose bright yellow 
       tunic was considered a threat to public order under the 
       tsars, struggled to make the communist authorities see the
       value of avant garde art; Babel publicly thanked the 
       regime for allowing him the privilege of not writing; and 
       Shostakovich's career veered wildly between public 
       disgrace and wealth and acclaim. An extraordinary work of 
       historical recovery, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch is also 
       a bold exploration of the triumph of art during terrible 
       times"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953|xInfluence. 
600 17 Stalin, Joseph,|d1879-1953.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00053304 
648  7 1900 - 1999|2fast 
650  0 Arts|xPolitical aspects|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
650  0 Artists|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors, Russian|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Composers|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Motion picture producers and directors|zSoviet Union
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Politics and culture|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 Artists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00817559 
650  7 Arts|xPolitical aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00817791 
650  7 Authors, Russian.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00822302 
650  7 Composers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00871620 
650  7 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 
650  7 Intellectual life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00975769 
650  7 Motion picture producers and directors.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01027225 
650  7 Politics and culture.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069952 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741 
651  0 Soviet Union|xIntellectual life|y1917-1970. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1936-1953. 
651  7 Soviet Union.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210281 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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