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The story of Nicolas Nabokov's involvement with the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) is a story of th

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Music on the Frontline: Nicolas Nabokov S Struggle Against Communism and Middlebrow Culture
1138277347, 9781138277342

This first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwa

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