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Musik in zwei Diktaturen: Verfolgung von Komponisten unter Hitler und Stalin. By Friedrich Geiger. New York: Barenreiter, 2004. [274 p. ISBN 3-7618-1717-7. [euro]34.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
The reason for comparing the persecution of composers in two societies would seem to be obvious: if one can demonstrate that the similarities between the societies are compelling enough to make a comparison worthwhile, then the act of comparison illuminates similarities and differences in enforcing ideology, in reacting to similar (or the same) phenomena, etc. Ideally, comparison also throws into sharp relief essential features of the societies that would be ...