For decades, Soviet rule attempted to suppress national identity across the Baltic states. But music became something far ...

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It wasn’t tuneful, but it was memorable. I was chairing a conference about `Empire”‘ in Sweden and on the final evening I got bored with the official entertainment and suggested a sing-song. These are ...

A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...

A portrait film of the Soviet popular music. Popular performers and composers talk about their work. The film includes, both on the screen and behind it, the songs “A Song Is Going in a Circle”, “A ...