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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by
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Mikaela S.
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“History is not simply the great tumults and tragedies but the accumulation of tiny moments and gestures.” (379)
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Mikaela S.
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“The symphony meant many things to many people… But for the people of Leningrad, it meant something else entirely: it gave them an identity… ‘This was our symphony. Leningrad’s.’… the symphony showed them that they belonged.” (Pg. 345) “It transformed them from victims into the pride of Russia.”
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“It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.” (117)—holy shit
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