Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960â1985
Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960â1985
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Zhuk provides an invaluable addition to a less researched but culturally transformative period between Khrushchev's 'thaw' and Gorbachev's perestroika. Illustrations, an excellent bibliography, and richly informed footnotes abound.(Choice)Refreshingly new and rich in insights.(Sabrina P. RametRussian Review)Zhuk has written a fascinating insight... The book provides the necessary background for many of the personalities and events that took place in the first two decades of Ukrainian independence.(Taras KuzioUkraine Analyst)There have been worthy studies of rock music in the Soviet Union in the past, but what distinguishes Zhuk’s account is the breadth of material he has been able to assemble in documenting the deep roots that the rock culture sunk into the society of 'developed socialism'... Zhuk’s innovative book,Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, opens up a new field of inquiry, one that raises fundamental questions about what we really know about how the Soviet Union worked.(Peter RutlandTransitions Online)[Zhuk] makes his case convincingly in his thoroughly researched and well-organized study of western cultural influences during his youth in his home city.(James von GeldernRussian History)A fascinating and academically important work.(Robert HornsbyEurope-Asia Studies)Rock and Roll in the Rocket Cityis crammed with food for thought and should provoke many productive conversations in the field of Soviet history and beyond.(Kristin Roth-EySlavic Review)Zhuk gives us a fascinating insight into Dnipropetrovsk under Soviet rule and provides a comprehensive background to amny of the personalities and events that took place in the first two decades of Ukrainian independence.Rock and Roll in the Rocket Cityshould be included in every course taught on twentieth-century Ukraine.(Taras KuzioSlavonic and East European Review)Serious and highly original study, the most complete to date of Western influence in a provincial city of the former Soviet Union.(Donald J. RaleighJournal of Modern History)Zhuk's excellent monograph makes a signal contribution in teasing out the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions of official policy toward 'western' cultural influence from the 1960s to the mid-1980s... this book... should be lauded for taking a major step forward in the study of popular culture in the late Soviet Union.(Gleb TsipurskyJournal of Social History)Sergei I. Zhuk's nuanced study offers a welcome addition to the growing literature on what used to be regarded as an unvariegated era of Soviet history.(Amy NelsonAmerican Historical Review)Sergei Zhuk’s illumination of youth culture in a provincial and closed Ukrainian city draws on a fascinating breadth of sources—archival documents, diaries, oral histories, and KGB intelligence. Zhuk shows how, despite the efforts of ideological officials and the paranoia of the KGB, the Soviet state fought a losing battle of accommodation and compromise against Western cultural influences. These influences, however, served to bolster as much as undermine Soviet ideology. Zhuk reconfigures Brezhnev-era society to reveal a more contradictory and multifaceted history than one usually encounters.(Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County)Zhuk's history of rock music is a very important contribution to late-Soviet social and institutional history.(John BushnellLaboratorium)This book is a rich read that pairs depth of analysis to an accurate measure of anecdote, and which succeeds in keeping a critical distance to a subject that clearly lies close to the personal affection of the author.(Thunnis Van OortEuropean Review of History)Description
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Zhuk provides an invaluable addition to a less researched but culturally transformative period between Khrushchev's 'thaw' and Gorbachev's perestroika. Illustrations, an excellent bibliography, and richly informed footnotes abound.(Choice)Refreshingly new and rich in insights.(Sabrina P. RametRussian Review)Zhuk has written a fascinating insight... The book provides the necessary background for many of the personalities and events that took place in the first two decades of Ukrainian independence.(Taras KuzioUkraine Analyst)There have been worthy studies of rock music in the Soviet Union in the past, but what distinguishes Zhuk’s account is the breadth of material he has been able to assemble in documenting the deep roots that the rock culture sunk into the society of 'developed socialism'... Zhuk’s innovative book,Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, opens up a new field of inquiry, one that raises fundamental questions about what we really know about how the Soviet Union worked.(Peter RutlandTransitions Online)[Zhuk] makes his case convincingly in his thoroughly researched and well-organized study of western cultural influences during his youth in his home city.(James von GeldernRussian History)A fascinating and academically important work.(Robert HornsbyEurope-Asia Studies)Rock and Roll in the Rocket Cityis crammed with food for thought and should provoke many productive conversations in the field of Soviet history and beyond.(Kristin Roth-EySlavic Review)Zhuk gives us a fascinating insight into Dnipropetrovsk under Soviet rule and provides a comprehensive background to amny of the personalities and events that took place in the first two decades of Ukrainian independence.Rock and Roll in the Rocket Cityshould be included in every course taught on twentieth-century Ukraine.(Taras KuzioSlavonic and East European Review)Serious and highly original study, the most complete to date of Western influence in a provincial city of the former Soviet Union.(Donald J. RaleighJournal of Modern History)Zhuk's excellent monograph makes a signal contribution in teasing out the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions of official policy toward 'western' cultural influence from the 1960s to the mid-1980s... this book... should be lauded for taking a major step forward in the study of popular culture in the late Soviet Union.(Gleb TsipurskyJournal of Social History)Sergei I. Zhuk's nuanced study offers a welcome addition to the growing literature on what used to be regarded as an unvariegated era of Soviet history.(Amy NelsonAmerican Historical Review)Sergei Zhuk’s illumination of youth culture in a provincial and closed Ukrainian city draws on a fascinating breadth of sources—archival documents, diaries, oral histories, and KGB intelligence. Zhuk shows how, despite the efforts of ideological officials and the paranoia of the KGB, the Soviet state fought a losing battle of accommodation and compromise against Western cultural influences. These influences, however, served to bolster as much as undermine Soviet ideology. Zhuk reconfigures Brezhnev-era society to reveal a more contradictory and multifaceted history than one usually encounters.(Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County)Zhuk's history of rock music is a very important contribution to late-Soviet social and institutional history.(John BushnellLaboratorium)This book is a rich read that pairs depth of analysis to an accurate measure of anecdote, and which succeeds in keeping a critical distance to a subject that clearly lies close to the personal affection of the author.(Thunnis Van OortEuropean Review of History)Description
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Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.
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