1979 - Colin Shindler

The Memoirs of Shostakovitch

1 November 1979 by Colin Shindler

Testimony: The Memoirs of Shostakovitch ed. Solomon Volkov No Travel like Russian Travel: by Nora Beloff For decades, Dmitri Shostakovich was presented as the personification of all that was best in Soviet culture. On his death in 1975. the accolades from the high and mighty cattle cascading down in a torrent of grief. Behind the … Read more

How Russia’s Jews Welcomed Israel

27 April 1979 by Colin Shindler

IN 1947, the Soviet Union supported the partition of Palestine and the establishment of a sovereign Jewish national State. It promoted the cause of a new Israel with great vigour within a de facto recognition of the Zionist solution to the Jewish problem. In November, 1947, stating the case for a Jewish State, Andrei Gromyko … Read more