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"Silenced - Composers in Revolutionary Russia" looks at Russian composers of the early twentieth century and is the second part of the series "Music, War, and Revolution." The fates of young rebels such as Arthur Lourié, Nikolai Roslavets,...See more"Silenced - Composers in Revolutionary Russia" looks at Russian composers of the early twentieth century and is the second part of the series "Music, War, and Revolution." The fates of young rebels such as Arthur Lourié, Nikolai Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov, Sergei Prokofiev and Leon Theremin or Arseny Avraamov reveal much about the early Soviet Union's cultural life, the hopeful and then tragic entanglement of art and politics to which so many artists fell victim during the First World War, the October Revolution, and the rule of Joseph Stalin. The film by Anne-Kathrin Peitz seeks to rediscover composers long banished and forgotten.See less