Russia/Soviet Union
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) (Ashby 2004a, 3; Ashby 2004b, 351)
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Famous quotes containing the words soviet union, russia, soviet and/or union:
“Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
—Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)
“How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers’ union. But it would be equally disastrous for the shoemakers’ union to ignore Shakespeare.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)