Soviet Artists Practical Creative Reply to Just Criticism, A

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Soviet Artist's Practical Creative Reply to Just Criticism, A. Sub-title of Shostakovich's 5th Sym., provided by an anonymous commentator in 1937 after the Soviet hierarchy had criticized ‘formalist’ tendencies in the composer's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and ballet Bright Stream.

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