{"product_id":"shostakovich-reconsidered-9780907689577","title":"Shostakovich Reconsidered","description":"\u003cp\u003eEstablishes beyond any doubt the enormous courage of one of the giants of the age  Dmitry Shostakovichs memoirs  Testimony  related to and edited by Solomon Volkov  have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was Testimony a forgery  made up by an impudent impostor  or was it the deathbed confession of a bent  but unbroken  man? Even now  years after the fall of the communist regime  a coterie of well-placed Western musicologists have regularly raised objections to Testimony  hoping with each attack to undermine the picture of Shostakovich presented in his memoirs that of a man of enormous moral stature  bitterly disillusioned with the Soviet system.  Here  Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov systematically address all of the accusations levelled at Testimony and Solomon Volkov  Shostakovichs amanuensis  amassing an enormous amount of material about Shostakovich and his position in Soviet society and burying forever the pictureof Shostakovich as a willing participant in the communist charade.  ALLAN B. HO is a musicologist  DMITRY FEOFANOV a lawyer and pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924783071285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0907689574","price":102.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780907689577.jpg?v=1794140971","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shostakovich-reconsidered-9780907689577","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}