Shostakovich's Mistaken Involvement In The Russian Revolution

Russia’s mistaken involvement in WWI, Tsar Nicholas II’s incompetence, and rising revolutionary spirits intensified into the massive, growing disparity between Russia’s ruling elite and its hopeless masses which eventually prompted the Russian revolution of 1917.
Through his powerful and sophisticated eleventh symphony, Shostakovich brings alive Bloody Sunday in detailed musical form with the first three movements describing the significant milestones throughout the day and with the fourth movement foreboding future revolutionary violence. Growing up in the 1910s, Shostakovich would later recount in the 1950s his first-hand experiences with rising tensions in the pre-revolutionary period. Even though the symphony was written more than 50 years