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Naumenko criticizes Tauger's view of the efficacy of collective farms arguing Tauger's view goes against the consensus, [43] she also states that the tenfold difference in death toll between the 1932-1933 Soviet famine and the Russian famine of 1891–1892 can only be explained by government policies, [43] and that the infestations of pests and ...
Sergei Prokofiev, one of the major composers of the 20th century. Classical music of the Soviet Union developed from the music of the Russian Empire.It gradually evolved from the experiments of the revolutionary era, such as orchestras with no conductors, towards classicism favored under Joseph Stalin's office.
An example of a mass song would be "Youth", set to music composed by Shostakovich. In it, a group of young "volunteers" get on a train and go east. By being optimistic, simple, and vague, it meets several of the main criteria for mass songs. Other songs, such as Ivan Dzerzhinsky's "The Cossack Song", attained international acclaim. [citation ...
Major causes include the 1932–33 confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities which contributed to the famine and affected more than forty million people, especially in the south on the Don and Kuban areas and in Ukraine, where by various estimates millions starved to death or died due to famine related illness (the event ...
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union .
According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, "there were two bad harvests in 1931 and 1932, largely but not wholly a result of natural conditions", [12] within the Soviet Union; Wheatcroft estimates that the grain yield for the Soviet Union preceding the famine was a low harvest of between 55 and 60 million tons, [13]: xix–xxi likely in part ...
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin; Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin; Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov
Left with few composers, the RAPM would deteriorate, as the political context of the time (the New Economic Policy, encouraging ties to the West) favoured the Association for Contemporary Music, which accepted western music. The RAPM would become an ideological and aesthetic opponent against the Association for Contemporary Music. [2]