title: The Soundtrack of Stagnation: Paradoxes within Soviet Rock and Pop of the 1970s
abstract: The âundergroundâ Soviet rock scene of the 1980s has received considerable scholarly attention, particularly after the fall of the USSR when available channels of information opened up even more than in the glasnost years. Both Russian and American academics have tackled the political implications and historical innovations of perestroika-era groups such as Akvarium, Mashina Vremeni, and DDT. Similarly, the Beatles craze of the 1960s is also frequently mentioned in scholarly works as an enor
journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)