Shostakovich: From Dissident Musician to State Apparatchik

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with an examination of the life of composer Dimitry Shostakovich and his ever changing relationship to the Soviet state, from accidental dissident to willing collaborator. The Tragedy of Lysenkoism: https://youtu.be/9RTAcbsQXFE Stalin's Cult of Personality: https://youtu.be/aB8RVCKDiXE How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies: https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How CIA Used Art Against the USSR: https://youtu.be/EPmomdCzomA How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #TheColdWar #shostakovich #classicalmusic #History #Soviet #SovietUnion #USSR **SOURCES** Laurel Fay, “Shostakovich: A Life”, Oxford University Press, 2000 Pauline Fairclough, “Dimitry Shostakovich: Critical Lives”, Reaktion Books, 2019. Peter Schmely, “shostakovich Fights the Cold War: Reflections from Great to Small”, Journal of Musicological Research, 34, 2015, 91-140 Peter Rabinowitz, “Squandered on Communism: Shostakovich During the Cold War”, Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 26, no.3, 1998, 69-85. Isobel Thompson, “Forces for Peace because of the magic in them: Processes of Anglo-Soviet Musical Exchange 1959-1974”, Solo. Richard HR White, “Shostakovich versus the Central Committee: The Power of Music”, Clinical Medicine, vol 8, n0. 4, August 2008. Phillip Deery, “Shostakovich, the Waldorf Conference and the Cold War”, American Communist History, vol. 11, no. 2, 2012. https://time.com/archive/6598411/music-shostakovich-the-guns/