Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre by Anastasia Gordienko soviet cinema Intrigued by these images

Intrigued by these images

Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities

and their complicated relationship with the West that remains relevant even today

In Fortress Dark and Stern

Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre by Anastasia Gordienko soviet cinema Intrigued by these imagesThe Russian shanson can be heard on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kremlin. Anastasia Gordienko provides the first full history of the shanson, from its tenuous ties to early modern criminals and robbers folk songs, through its immediate generic predecessors in the Soviet Union, to its current incarnation as the soundtrack for daily life in Russia. It is difficult to firmly define the shanson or its