WAR CULTURE & MEMORY
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What did Boris Pasternak hope about the war?
For Boris Pasternak the war seemed 'an omen of deliverance, a purifying storm'. Pasternak hoped that, 'So many sacrifices cannot result in nothing. A presage of freedom was in the air.' He was to be bitterly disappointed.
What happened to Shostakovich's seventh symphony during the siege of Leningrad?
Shostakovich had worked on it in Leningrad on his seventh symphony which he dedicated to the city. On 9 July 1942, it was performed by a motley collection of musicians in the bombed Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonia and piped through loudspeakers into the streets of the still besieged city. It had an overwhelming emotional effect.
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