As far as is revealed in a thorough search of every book, article, and archive on Shostakovich available in the U.S., nothing remains of the suite from the movie The Unforgettable Year 1919, Op. 89a, compiled from the complete score by the composer's friend Lev Atovmian in 1952, except for the miniature piano concerto called The Assault on Beautiful Gorky. Indeed, all that exists of The Assault on Beautiful Gorky is one recording made in the early 1980s. From this, one learns that the work is simple, shallow, and altogether trivial. The themes are standard-issue Soviet banalities; the climaxes are off-the-rack late-Stalin bombasticities; the piano part is full of nothing but flash superficialities. The trite and tawdry nature of the music makes one regret that Shostakovich was reduced to writing such tripe for the Soviet film industry because of the vicious politics of the time.

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