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=List of Sources (not included in word count) Tips]=

Volkov, Solomon., 2004. Shostakovich and Stalin. Great Britain: //Little, Brown. Dermoncourt, Bertrand., 2006. Dimitri Shostakovich. Arles, France: Actes Sud. Danielian, Ararat., 2007. Compositeurs et Interprètes Russes: Du XVIIe Siècles à Nos Jours. Biarritz: atlantica. Volkov, Solomon., 1979. Testimony: The Memoirs of Shostakovich. Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
 * Books

// **// **Film**
 * Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies. 2005 [DVD]. Universal Music Operations.

**** Discography **
 * Shostakovich: Symphony NO 8, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra., 2005. London: London Symphony Orchestra.

**Appendix B://

“On 28 January 1936, we went to the railway station to buy a new // Pravda //. I opened it up, leafed through it – and found the article ‘Muddle Instead of Music’. I’ll never forget that day, it’s probably the most memorable in my life. That article on the third page of // Pravda // changed my entire existence. It was printed without a signature, like an editorial – that is, it expressed the opinion of the Party. But it actually expressed the opinion of Stalin, and that was much more important. There is a well known school of thought which holds that the article was written by the well-known bastard Zaslavsky. It might have been written by the well-known bastard Zaslavsky, but that’s another matter entirely. The article has too much of Stalin in it, there are expressions that even Zaslavsky wouldn’t have used, they were too ungrammatical. After all, the article appeared before the big purges. There were still some fairly literate people working at // Pravda // and they wouldn’t have left in that famous part about my music having nothing in common with ‘symphonic soundings’. What are these mysterious ‘symphonic soundings’? It’s clear that this is a genuine pronouncement of our leader and teacher. There are many places like that in this article. I can distinguish with complete confidence Zaslavsky’s bridges from Stalin’s text.”