New Volume Composers in the Gulag of the Stalin Era

In March 2024, the volume Composers in the Gulag of the Stalin Era, edited by Prof Dr Andreas Waczkat together with Dr Inna Klause and Prof Dr Stefan Weiss, was published by Georg Olms Verlag as Volume 2 of the series Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. The bilingual volume contains contributions by Inna Barsova, Friedrich Geiger, Igor Golomshtok, Galina Ivanova, Inna Klause, Marina Lobanova, Urve Lippus, Wolfgang Mende, Victoria Mironova, Jascha Nemtsov, Dorothea Redepenning, Vitaly Shentalinsky, Oleg Timofeyev, Semyon Vilensky, Igor Vorobyov, Andreas Waczkat, Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Stefan Weiss and Vsevolod Zaderatsky.

The publisher writes about the publication:

"During the Stalin era, more than 18 million people were imprisoned in the Gulag, the system of forced labour camps in the Soviet Union, including numerous musicians. Of the many music-related professions that were represented in the Gulag at the time, this volume focuses on composers. It documents the facts on this topic that are currently known and places the fates of the people that were affected in a broader context by asking about the background to the imprisonments, placing them in the context of other repressions against musicians in the Soviet Union and taking a sideways look at other arts in the same place."