Item COLD WAR 28/29 - Transcript of interview with musician Mstislav Rostropovich, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, cellist, conductor and pianist, relating to Rostropovich's reaction to a speech by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on formalism in art, 1948; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; a meeting between Rostropovich and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, at the Soviet Embassy, Berlin, Germany, 1964; the Soviet and Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia, Aug 1968; meetings with Soviet author Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1969; Rostropovich's decision to settle in the USA, 1974; the deprivation of Rostropovich's Soviet citizenship, 1978. 20pp (2 copies, one annotated)