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Martin Buber's theological study For the Sake of Heaven is published.
Carlo Levi's autobiographical work Christ Stopped at Eboli is published.
Jean Giraudoux's play The Madwoman of Chaillot premieres in Paris.
George Orwell's novel Animal Farm is published.
Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, a study of authoritarianism, is published.
Jean Renoir's movie The Southerner is released.
Roberto Rossellini's movie Open City, filmed in postwar Rome, is released.
Dmitry Shostakovich composes his Ninth Symphony.
Igor Stravinsky composes his Symphony in Three Movements.
Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited is published.
In France women gain the right to vote.
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Part one of Sergey Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible is released and achieves instant success, earning Eisenstein a Stalin Prize. Completed in February 1946, part two, however, is denounced by the Central Committee of the Communist Party for its unflattering portrayal of Ivan and his bodyguard and is promptly banned...
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