Rebecca Mitchell: Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Eurasia Past and Present) [2016] hardback ZCGIF sought violent conversion and declared

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Rebecca Mitchell: Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Eurasia Past and Present) [2016] hardback ZCGIF sought violent conversion and declaredA prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia's "Silver Age," author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and