Sing to Victory! (RUS)
Ament, Suzanne A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops, a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song, fresh recruits spontaneously standing and doffing their caps to a new song, thereby creating the new wartime anthem. This well researched, multi-faceted book depicts the relationship between song and society during World War II in the USSR. Chapter topics range from the creation and distribution of the...