Cold War Propagandist: Nicolas Nabokov, JFK, and the Shostakovich Wars
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2020
We know that a totalitarian society can promote the arts in its own way — that it can arrange for splendid productions of opera and ballet, as it can arrange for the restoration of ancient and historic buildings. But art means more than the resuscitation of the past: it means the free and unconfined search for new ways of expressing the experience of the present and the vision of the future.