A few words about the man...
From the inaugural declaration of the Shostakovich Association

"Do Not Judge Me Harshly"
Anti-communism in Shostakovich's letters to Isaak Glikman

The Shostakovich Debate
A guide and chronology

Lyubov Shaporina's Diary
The background to Shostakovich's symphonies 4-6

Laurel Fay's biography
A Review of Shostakovich: A Life

The Mannes Conference
Transcripts of the public meeting in New York on 15th February 1999

The Dissident
Mark Aranovsky's introductory article in the Shostakovich issue
of Muzykal'naya Akademiya, Winter 1997

Sound-Allegories
Manashir Yakubov's programme notes for the LSO's Barbican series

The War Symphonies
A film by Larry Weinstein [reviewed]

DSCH Interview
Ian MacDonald speaks (Summer 1998)

Centre and pseudo-centre
Points in response to issues arising in DSCH 10

Witnesses for the Defence
Testimonies concerning Shostakovich's attitudes to the Soviet regime

The Turning Point
Thoughts on Ho and Feofanov's Shostakovich Reconsidered

Shostakovich Reconsidered... reviewed
Comment compiled by the book's editors

Buying Shostakovich Reconsidered
How to purchase the book on the Internet

Shostakovich and the Soviet state
An interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy

Recollections of a Man
Krzysztof Meyer's superb short memoir

Humour: a Serious Business
Rob Ainsley on the 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87

Recent Commentary on Symphonies 1-5
A critical digest of Russian and Soviet opinion

Zhitomirsky Looks Back #1
The reminiscences of a close friend of the composer

Zhitomirsky Looks Back #2
Further reminiscences of a close friend of the composer

Testimony pro Testimony
Some important endorsements of the disputed memoir

The Second Testimony
Rostislav Dubinsky's Stormy Applause

Interviews about Shostakovich
A digest of interviews by Irina Nikolska conducted with
various figures in the Russian musical community

"You must remember!"
Shostakovich's alleged interrogation by the NKVD in 1937

The Legend of the Eighth Quartet
And the reality...

Kondrashin's Shostakovich
A great symphony cycle reissued - and a statement by the conductor

Sanderling's Shostakovich #1
Some interesting symphony reissues (with remarks by the conductor)

Sanderling's Shostakovich #2
A recent interview from the pages of DSCH

Book review
Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered

Zamyatin, Goldstein, and The Bolt
A hoax unmasked

Heroine or Villainess?
Some suggestions about the character of Katerina Ismailova

A Propaganda Play
Shostakovich's downfall in 1948

Shostakovich and Bulgakov
'20s satire - literary and musical

Universal Because Specific
Arguments for a contextual approach

CD Reviews
Recent Shostakovich issues on compact disc

The Shostakovich Centre
The primary archive outside Russia

DSCH (the Shostakovich Society)
Website of the DSCH Journal, maintained by editor Alan Mercer

Speaking of Shostakovich...
C. H. Loh's archive site: articles, reviews, letters

Iain Strachan's Shostakovich site
Number cyphers, the "Kontakion" motif, and other codes

Sjostakovitj Centralen
Peter Lundin's guide to Shostakovich concerts in Scandinavia

Book review
David Fanning's Shostakovich Studies

Comments on The New Shostakovich
Some letters and press clippings

DSCH-List
Posts made to this discussion group in 1999-2000

alt.fan.shostakovich
Usenet posts made to this newsgroup in 1995