Communist Marseillaise

[Robert A. Rothstein]

On 7/6/2012 11:22 AM, Simon Beattie wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the official status (or otherwise) of Demyan Bedny’s 
> “Kommunisticheskaia Marsel’eza”, which he apparently wrote in 1918?  
> Looking online, it seems that the “Internationale” was adopted as the 
> national anthem in Russia that year, too.  Was there a competition for 
> a new national anthem, or is it just chance they both date from 1918?
>
Here's what Soviet musicologist Arnol'd Sokhor has to say about it in 
his 1959 book /Russkaia sovetskaia pesnia/ (65):
         C начала 1918 года из-под пера Д. Бедного стали выходить первые 
стихи для походных песен Красной Армии [...]. Этим стихам еще были     
     свойственны риторичность и отвлеченная лозунговость, помешавшие их 
распростанению в качестве песен.*
             *Была издана с нотами лишь "Коммунистическая Марсельеза".

Later, commenting on Civil War songs, he writes (81):
         Появились разные новые "Марсельезы" (например, 
"Коммунистическая" Д. Бедного).

Bob Rothstein


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