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Playing with fire : the story of Maria Yudina, pianist in Stalin's Russia
- Title
- Playing with fire : the story of Maria Yudina, pianist in Stalin's Russia / Elizabeth Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Elizabeth, 1947-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 331 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-314) and index.
- Discography: pages 315-319.
- Contents
- List of Plates -- Acronyms -- Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood and Youth : Nevel', Petrograd -- 2. 1919-1927: Baptism, University Studies, Philosophical Circles -- 3. 1921-1927: Graduation and Start of a Musical Career -- 4. 1928-1933: Leningrad-Moscow via Tbilisi -- 5. 1933-1936: Moscow -- 6. 1936-1941: The Moscow Conservatoire and Musical Projects -- 7. 1941-1945: War and its Aftermath -- 8. 1945-1953: The Anti-Formalist and Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaigns -- 9. 1953-1960: The Thaw Years -- 10. 1960-1970: The Final Decade -- Endnotes.
- Call Number
- JME 22-129
- ISBN
- 9780300253931
- 0300253931
- OCLC
- 1261305607
- Author
- Wilson, Elizabeth, 1947- author.
- Title
- Playing with fire : the story of Maria Yudina, pianist in Stalin's Russia / Elizabeth Wilson.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-314) and index.Discography: pages 315-319.
- Research Call Number
- JME 22-129