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DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...
...Manhattan city blocks, hits the Moscow newsstands in midmorning, along with the other two of the Big Three, the Government's official Izvestia and the Army's Red Star. Other Pravda editions are printed (from mats delivered by plane) the same day in Leningrad and Kuibyshev, the following day in Baku and Rostov...
...Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
...latest by Shostakovich, who is co-star of Soviet music with Serge Prokofieff, is a "Victory" symphony, to complete his war trilogy which began with the brassy, repetitious Seventh ("Leningrad"). It has an unorthodox five instead of four movements, but is shorter (25 minutes) than most symphonies. Shostakovich, who wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported...
...Shot at Headquarters. Barmine's story really begins in 1934, when a shot rang out in the Leningrad headquarters of the Communist Party. A student had killed Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party secretary. Practically nobody outside Russia had ever heard of Kirov (he was Stalin's political heir apparent and a special pleader for peace between Stalin and the opposition). But he is not likely to be forgotten, for his assassination touched off one of history's most cryptic and luridly arresting episodes-Russia's great Purge...