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4 - Avant-Garde(s)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2019

Daniel Elphick
Daniel Elphick
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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Khrushchev’s 1956 ‘secret speech’, delivered behind closed doors to the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, laid bare the cruelty and excesses of Stalin’s personality cult. For citizens across the Eastern Bloc, the speech was a cultural watershed. Polish translations were passed among Party members, and leaked copies were sold for extortionate prices on the black market.

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Music behind the Iron Curtain
Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries
 , pp. 131 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Avant-Garde(s)
  • Daniel Elphick, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Music behind the Iron Curtain
  • Online publication: 09 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108642774.005
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  • Avant-Garde(s)
  • Daniel Elphick, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Music behind the Iron Curtain
  • Online publication: 09 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108642774.005
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  • Avant-Garde(s)
  • Daniel Elphick, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Music behind the Iron Curtain
  • Online publication: 09 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108642774.005
Available formats
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