It ( Es ) thinks, in the abyss without human.

■ The title of this chapter "Earth Instead of Stalinism" is derived from "Muddle Instead of Music", the title of the critical article ( 1936 ) in Pravda on Shostakovich's opera, Op. 29 "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk". Although this critical article is unsigned, the intensity of the criticism is said to s…