In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon. For decades under Soviet rule, Estonians gathered to sing folk songs that ...

The fact that Stalin himself was a music-lover didn’t help ... The Sound of Utopia is an illuminating account of how the Soviet system waged its war on musicians. One line, however, has ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially revived the Intervision Song Contest, a Soviet-era alternative to Eurovision, ...