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With the 1979 publication of Testimony, the composer's memoirs secretly narrated to his friend, editor Solomon Volkov, a different picture emerged. This Shostakovich was a pragmatist, who learned to keep his head down after he was denounced in Pravda and saw his friends and colleagues persecuted and purged by Stalin during the Great Terror. This Shostakovich was a survivor, who saved his innermost feelings for his work. "Words are not my genre," he once said to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose poem Babi Yar he set in the brutal Symphony No. 13. "I never lie in music...
...Soviet space program has also had its tragedies. Just three months after the Apollo fire, Colonel Vladimir Komarov plunged more than four miles to earth in Soyuz 1 after its parachute snarled. In June 1971, Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev suffocated during re-entry. Soviet officials later revealed that a valve had opened when the capsule separated from the Salyut 1 space station, allowing the cabin to depressurize...
...Soviet-bloc men outdid their hypothetical Olympic rivals in nine. Power, not speed, was their forte. In the brawny field events-hammer, javelin, discus and shotput-three Soviet athletes and one East German exceeded the winning distances in Los Angeles. In the pole vault, the high-flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast here," said one Soviet fan, and 6-ft. 4-in. Sergei Zabolotnov proved it. In the 200-meter backstroke, he defeated...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙ Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙ Zebra, Clark Howard