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11. Perestroika Without Pleasure

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Yanka Dyagileva’s punk rock album Anhedonia, the greatest monument to perestroika that you’ve never heard of.

Tags: rock music, music, Yanka Dyagileva, punk music, perestroika
By Tiffany Zhu
12. Poems for a Golden Autumn

Autumn is colder and darker than summer, but is it really that depressing? Classic poets and rock musicians weigh in.

Tags: russian music, rock music, poetry, fall, autumn, DDT, Bunin, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva, boris pasternak, Pushkin
By Tiffany Zhu
13. What Russian Rock Music Says About the Motherland

“Mother Russia” is much more than a stereotype. Everyone has opinions on it, Russian rock musicians included.

Tags: russian music, music, nationalism, patriotism, rock music
By Tiffany Zhu
14. Missing Lakes, Concert Mistakes, and Séances with Darwin

Lakes vanish, free food appears, and a priest speaks to the dead.

Tags: protest, fish, Instagram, water, rock music, concert, shashlyki, Darwin
By Tiffany Zhu
15. Far From Moscow: A Digital Festival for the Ages

Check out five of the best up-and-coming Russian indie bands of 2018 and 2019.

Tags: rock music, indie music, russian music, music
16. The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Russian Rock

Curious about Russian rock but don’t know where to start? Here are five bands to start your playlist.

Tags: Murakami, DDT, Neschastnyi Sluchay, Mashina Vremeni, songwriters, russian music, music, rock music, Tsoy
17. 5 St. Petersburg Bands You Should Know

St. Petersburg (or Leningrad) has always occupied a special place in the world of Russian music. Famous for its rich classical traditions, especially at the Mariinsky Theater, in the second part of the twentieth century St. Petersburg became the epicenter of underground and experimental music.

Tags: music, rock music, st. petersburg, glasnost
By Elena Bobrova
18. Boris Grebenshikov, a Founding Father of Soviet Rock

When the music you sing is banned, when the entire genre is identified with the enemy, how do you find the courage to keep singing? Just ask Boris Grebenshikov!

Tags: boris grebenshikov, music, russian music, russia, russian, ussr, soviet union, rock music
By Eugenia Sokolskaya

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