Ian MacDonald \'s The New Shostakovich presents the case for the dissident view, arguing passionately that the meaning of the composer\'s music cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he and his fellow artists lived through under Soviet Communism..
Ian MacDonald \'s The New Shostakovich presents the case for the dissident view, arguing passionately that the meaning of the composer\'s music cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he and his fellow artists lived through under Soviet Communism.