However, Alfred Schnittke came to find the nationalism and philistinism of Soviet apparatchiks offensive.

ECONOMIST: Alfred Schnittke

In later life many of us regret our youthful Philistinism.

BBC: Reciting poetry: Stanza and deliver

When Nikita Khrushchev, in a moment of notorious philistinism, denounced abstract modern painting during a visit to the Manezh gallery in Moscow in 1962, it changed the future course of Soviet art, breaking countless careers in the process.

ECONOMIST: Soviet cultural history