"By the early '60s, the factory was releasing music from all over Central Asia ... By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all, the Soviet Union, was set to shutter its doors.

In the polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been ... Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week ...

Many forms of music were forbidden in the Soviet Union, especially in the first years of the Cold War. Western jazz and rock-and-roll were deemed the music of the enemy; Russian-émigré pop ...