Leningrad Rock Club: The Iconoclastic Venue that Rebelled Against Soviet Control

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Source/Further reading:

Steinholt, Y. B. (2005). Rock in the reservation : songs from Leningrad Rock Club 1981-86. https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Reservation-Yngar-Bordewich-Steinholt/dp/0970168438

Overviews:
https://popkult.org/leningrad-rock-club/
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/the-leningrad-rock-scene/
https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/03/02/the_leningrad_rock_club_russias_hall-of-fame_rockers_23419.html

Photos and Videos:
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/the-leningrad-rock-scene/the-leningrad-rock-scene-images/
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/the-leningrad-rock-scene/the-leningrad-rock-scene-video/

Rock in the USSR:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4214174?seq=1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40257510?seq=1
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/the-leningrad-rock-scene/the-leningrad-rock-scene-texts/a-prophet-in-his-own-country/
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/1985-turbulent-youth/turbulent-youth-video/juris-podnieks-is-it-easy-to-be-young-1986/
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/1985-turbulent-youth/turbulent-youth-texts/the-rockers/
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/the-leningrad-rock-scene/the-leningrad-rock-scene-texts/rock-music-subculture-life-style/

Censorship in 1983 and 1984:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/853286?seq=1

It’s a long way to the top:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/acdc/itsalongwaytothetopifyouwannarocknroll.html

The Komsomol: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Komsomol

Estrada: https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Soviet+Estrada/

The Brodsky Trial:
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/the-trial-of-joseph-brodsky.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joseph-brodsky

13, Rubynshtenia Street:
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