New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies


Simon Morrison, “The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years” (Oxford UP, 2009)

February 22, 2011

[Crossposted from New Books in History] In the Soviet Union, artists lived lives that were at once charmed and cursed. Though relatively poor, the USSR poured resources into the arts. The Party created a large, well-funded cultural elite of which only t