Marina Frolova-Walker (University of Cambridge)
A Tale of Two Operas (and two resolutions): 'The Great Friendship' and 'With All My Heart'
In this paper, I shall attempt to reconstruct the political rationale behind the denunciations of two Soviet operas, Muradeli’s The Great Friendship and Zhukovsky’s With All My Heart, both of which seemed impeccably mainstream Socialist Realist works, devoid of the least hint of “formalism”. I shall also how these denunciations profoundly altered the discourse of the Soviet artistic intelligentsia, drawing on the transcripts of the Stalin Prize Committee meetings.
