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• Music Had to Be in Tune With the Soviet Party Line: Composer Dmitri Shostakovich Paid A Price - a short note | Harsh Kapoor
  29 May 2021, by Harsh Kapoor

  by Harsh Kapoor
  Music at the service of ideology and party bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
  The Russian music composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg. In 1919, when he was 13 years old, Shostakovich joined the Petrograd Conservatory. After his graduation, he worked as a trained concert pianist and composer on contracts for all kinds of state entities that existed in the USSR.
  He was a very active part of the progressive current of musicians of the (…)

• Documentary: Arpilleras - story of women affected by dams of Brazil | Womens Collective of MOB
  30 July 2021

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  Arpilleras: atingidas por barragens bordando a resistência by MAB Brasil https://youtu.be/PEu-AATb3TU
  by: Colectivo de Mulheres do MAB - (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, or MAB — pronounced “mah-bee”) [Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Dams]

• Documentary essay: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
  10 January
• Bukharin and the Terror - 1988 Documentary
  14 September 2024

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  Bukharin and the Terror. 1988 documentary. by Major Esterhazy https://youtu.be/0-txuA6WgXI?si=pXYJN7uwFan1Uff0

• Music: Mikis Theodorakis, Georges Moustaki - Imaste dio (1970)
  16 September 2022

  A documentary by Roviros Manthoulis. Original French title: "Nous sommes deux". Here is a description of the film’s content: "Prison songs, in Paris. Mikis Theodorakis, free at last, is leaving from the prison of Oropos and flies to Paris. The same night, with George Moustaki, he translates to French the songs he wrote in prison. The camera follows them. This is a special moment in the life of the two artists."

• Video: Afghan women orchestra Zohra at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, March 2019
  19 March 2021
• Video: Daring to Hope - Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham looks back at the early days of the women’s liberation movement in Britain
  8 October 2021

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  Daring to Hope: Liberating Women by ideaXme https://youtu.be/PjIQ4UEtwbI

• Music: La Petite Fille De La Mer | Vangelis
  21 October 2022

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  Vangelis - La petite fille de la mer by pavelba https://youtu.be/UdPOCQGYwrk

• 1959 Hindi film Song: Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Pe Ho Nisar | Raj Kapoor in Anari
  1 May
• Video: Speech by Sitaram Yechury in Rajya Sabha on the New Education Policy (Aug 11, 2016)
  14 September 2024

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  Sh. Sitaram Yechury’s comments on the draft National Education Policy - 2016. by Sansad TV https://youtu.be/wz1yz5akdjQ?si=47rxdeHBumhbaaJ6