“It wasn’t really a sanitarium! Do you know, I’ve heard. . . .” Thus all Russia has gossiped for a month or more. Soviet censorship concealed absolutely the real condition of “The Man of Steel,” ...
Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that's as scathing as any tune in the folk legend's long career. "I'm ...
At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...