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In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan pieces the composition of Shostakovich's most well-known work resistant to the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Drawing on extensive principal research in archives as well as personal characters and diaries, he vividly says the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the 20th hundred years, Stalin and Hitler, on the city of beautiful beauty, and of its believe it or not remarkable survival. Weaving Shostakovich's own story and that of several others in to the framework of the maelstrom of Stalin's purges and the Nazis' brutal invasion of Russia, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving bank account of one of the very most tragic periods of the twentieth hundred years.

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