Book Review| August 01 2022 In Stravinsky’s Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris, by Klára Móricz In Stravinsky’s Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris, by KláraMóricz. California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xiv, 310 pp. Marina Frolova-Walker Marina Frolova-Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (2): 379–384. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.2.379 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marina Frolova-Walker; In Stravinsky’s Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris, by Klára Móricz. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2022; 75 (2): 379–384. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.2.379 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Klára Móricz’s composers were émigrés, most of them leaving Russia after the October Revolution. Today, many Russians are on the move again, ready to face a lengthy if not permanent exile after the invasion of Ukraine and the ebbing of the freedoms that had been introduced in the 1990s. Like the old émigrés, many were already in the West but keeping open the possibility of return, while others are hurriedly leaving, unwilling to be silent, but facing isolation, persecution, and poverty if they speak out. Russian society is splitting into “patriots” and, in diminishing numbers, “traitors.” At their computer keyboards, they exchange quotations from Russian literature: Tyutchev and Dostoyevsky for the “patriots,” Saltykov-Shchedrin, Chekhov, Rozanov for the “traitors,” both sides claiming vindication from the Russian cultural heritage. While comparisons can be drawn between Russian émigrés of today and their counterparts of a hundred years ago, we should not press them... You do not currently have access to this content.