ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
Garshnek. His oratorio works are based on social and historical subjects: the friendship
between Estonian and the Soviet republics and the impact of the revolution.
X. THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTIES. TOWARDS A MODERN
IDIOM: EINO TAMBERG AND VELJO TORMIS.
Nikita Khruschev in February 1956, at the 20th Congress of the Communist
Party condemned Stalin’s personality cult for suffocating the people’s initiative and
expression, for political careerism, economic mismanagement and mass executions.
The new era was named “the thaw of Khruschev”. Intellectuals felt relief and hoped for
a better future. Khruschev allowed Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s story One Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich to be published in the literary magazine Novyi Mir in 1962.
Estonian writers and artists obtained some freedom of expression, but certainly
not the freedom in the Western sense. In literature satire and comedy were revived and
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