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...late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin. He was murdered in Mexico City three years later, allegedly by one of Stalin's henchmen...
...them is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody...
...wonder is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather...
...Communist sins. The persecution is commonly thought to have succeeded in breaking him, but as the recordings prove, the composer resisted with the help of Russian pianist Maria Yudina and Matsov's father. "This collection gives the lie to the myth of Shostakovich being cowed into abject submission by Stalin," says Matsov. "Shostakovich, my father and Yudina waged their own campaign of cultural resistance - and won." Beyond Shostakovich's daring work, this trio also organized public performances of over 400 mostly religious pieces, including works by Bach, Wagner, Haydn and Mahler that were banned in the U.S.S.R. The archive...
There would be an irony in that distinction. Not since Harry Truman discovered that "Uncle Joe" Stalin was more than merely the hack political boss he had first thought have two superpower leaders seemed so ideologically at odds. Reagan and Gorbachev both came to office not with their hands outstretched but with their dukes up. They seemed headed not for the summit of diplomacy but for the back alley of rhetorical scrapping and unbridled competition. Each took over at a time when his side felt threatened. Each gained power in part because he seemed to offer the best antidote...