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Playing Stalin's Tune

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In this concluding programme examining the relationship between music and politics in the Soviet Union, Bridget Kendall looks at the role music played in the victory over Hitler. In the first part of the war Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony became a symbol of Soviet endurance and as the American alliance progressed the partywas more open to western popular music and jaZZ. Producer Martin Smith

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Bridget Kendall
Producer:
Martin Smith
Source: Radio Times

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