Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad / by Anderson, M. T.

Table of Contents: “…The death of yesterday -- The birth of tomorrow -- Life is getting merrier -- Friendship -- Barbarossa -- The approach -- The first movement -- The second movement -- The third movement -- Fables, stories -- Flight -- Railway car no. 7 -- Kuibyshev and Leningrad -- An optimistic Shostakovich -- The city of the dead -- My music is my weapon -- The road of life -- Symphony for the city of the dead -- Cold war and thaw.…”

A symphony of whales / by Schuch, Steve

Leningrad's modernists : studies in composition and musical thought, 1917-1932 / by Haas, David Edwin

Table of Contents: “…Background and biographies -- In search of a Leningrad school of composition -- Boris Asafyev and the form-as-process aesthetic -- Vladimir Shcherbachyov and the new pedagogy at the Conservatory -- Shcherbachyov's nonet, op. 10 : improvisation, schema, and process -- Shcherbachyov's Second symphony : symphonic apocalypse on themes from Aleksandr Blok -- Shostakovich's First symphony : process and a symphonic schema -- Shostakovich's symphonic dedication to October : a tribute to the Revolution and revolutionary theater -- Popov's Septet, op. 2 : episodes from Leningrad's musical life.…”

The alcoholic empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia / by Herlihy, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction; 2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship; 3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies; 4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military; 5 The Church's New Social Mission; 6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol; 7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol; 8 The Politics of Alcohol; 9 Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Acquarium : 1995-2013.

Table of Contents: “…Bloom of the North [Floraison du Nord] (06:12) -- Dead Sailors Never Sleep [Les marins morts ne dorment jamais] (04:45) -- Can't Find Himself [Il n'y arrive pas] (05:49) -- March of the Sacred Cows [La marche des vaches sacrées] (04:49) -- Some People Marry [Certains se marient] (03:31) -- Moon Humour Me [Lune, calme moi] (04:52) -- Garçon #2 (04:13) -- The White One [La blanche] (03:22) -- Mama I Can't Drink No More [Maman, je ne peux plus boire] (02:58) -- Promised Day [Le jour promis] (03:35) -- Man from Kemerovo [L'homme de Kemerovo] (03:46) -- Rain Coloured Sky [Ciel couleur pluie] (04:44) -- Heartseases & ladybugs [Pensées sauvages & Coccinelles] (03:16) -- Winter Rose [Rose d'hiver] (08:39) -- The Great Railroad Symphny [La grande symphonie du chemin de fer] (06:02) -- 500 (03:27).…”
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The operas of Sergei Prokofiev / by Guillaumier, Christina

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Writing the siege of Leningrad : women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose / by Simmons, Cynthia, 1949-, Perlina, Nina, 1939-2019

Table of Contents: “…DIARIES AND LETTERS: Diary of Liubov' Vasil'evna Shaporina, hospital nurse during Siege; later an artist -- Diary of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, artist -- Letter from Leningrad: Él'za Greinert to children -- Letter from Leningrad: German family remembered -- Diary and letters of Evgeniia Shavrova, introduced by her sister, Elena Fassman, librarian -- Diary of Vera Sergeevna Kostrovitskaia, ballerina and dance teacher -- Diary of Mariia Viacheslavovna Kropacheva, school teacher -- Diary of Anna Ivanovna Likhacheva, doctor -- Diary of Tamara Petrovna Nekliudova, entertainer at the front -- Ol'ga Mikhailovna Freidenberg, classicist scholar, first woman department chair in a Soviet university, The Race of Life -- MEMOIRS AND ORAL HISTORIES: Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, Evacuation and The Scottish Album -- Valentina Nikolaevna Gorokhova, doctor, The War, the Blockade, the Military Hospital -- Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova, housewife, A Half-CenturyAgo -- Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina, literary scholar, "Saving, I Am Saved" -- Interview with Natal'ia Borisovna Rogova, librarian, archivist -- Interview with Valentina Fedorovna Petrova, archivist -- Oral history of Natal'ia Vladimirovna Stroganova, child during the Siege; later philologist -- Interview with Valentina Il'inishna Bushueva, factory worker -- Avgusta Mikhailovna Saraeva-Bondar', art historian, Silhouettes of Time -- Interview with Kseniia Makianovna Matus, oboist in the Leningrad Symphony -- Yuliia Aronovna Mendeleva, doctor, memoir excerpts from The Defense of Leningrad -- Lilia Solomonovna Frankfurt, librarian, "The Saltykov- Shchedrin National Public Library" -- Interview with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher, and Ol'ga Anatol'evna Trapitsina-Matveenko, chemist -- DOCUMENTARY PROSE: Elena Oskarovna Martilla, artist, Grave Months for the Blockaded City -- Lidiia Samsonovna Razumovskaia, university student, "To the People" -- Irena L'vovna Dubitskaia, Cold Sun: Stories -- Liudmila Ivanovna Veshenkova, "Sweet Earth" -- Antonina Emel'ianovna Maslovskaia, "Blockade Lullaby" -- Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, "Vitamins, or Ode to Grass" -- Liubov' Borisovna Beregovaia, The Joyous, the Inimitable.…”
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The new third Rome : readings of a Russian nationalist myth / by Østbø, Jardar

Table of Contents: “…Aleksandr Dugin -- To Kill for the Third Rome; Rome and Carthage; The Russian Eurasian Empire; Sacral Geography: Dugin the 'Jungian' Analyst; The Wheel of the Third Rome: the Sole Modus Vivendi; Dugin's Symphony of Geopolitics and 'Theology'; Moscow as Katechon; Messianism; The Catastrophic Schism; Peter I Seals the Fate of the Third Rome -- Temporarily; The Transcendental Third Rome; The Bolshevik Restoration of the Third Rome; The Ethics of the Third Rome -- Thou Shalt Kill; The Future of the Third Rome; Conclusions; 6. …”
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Ivan the terrible, op. 116 ; Ballad of an unknown boy, op. 93 / by Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953

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Kurskie pesni : kantata dli︠a︡ smeshannogo khora, alʹta solo i simfonicheskogo orkestra ; Kurskie pesni : kantata, avtorskai︠a︡ redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ dli︠a︡ smeshannogo khora, alʹta solo...

Курские песни : кантата для смешанного хора, альта соло и симфонического оркестра ; Курские песни : кантата, авторская редакция для смешанного хора, альта соло и инструментал'ного ансамбля ; Три старинные песни курской губернии : для смешанного хора, двух альтов соло, двух фортепиано, окарины и ударных /

by Sviridov, Georgiĭ, 1915-1998