Stalin's bureaucracy waged a campaign of hate against artists who defied their narrow doctrine of 'Socialist Realism'. Dmitri Shostakovich's 'Anti-formalist Rayok' lambasts these cultural crimes, and defends the spirit of cultural freedom unleashed by the October Revolution. The post Shostakovich’s ‘Anti-formalist Rayok’: A scathing satire of Stalin’s cultural crimes appeared first on The Communist.
