Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...

Michel Krielaars’ illuminating account of the composers and performers who navigated the repressive Soviet system ...

With The Sound of Utopia, Michael Krielaars offers a chattily accessible survey of the musicians who lived beholden to the KGB’s whims ...

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