And this, by the 1980s, was pumping out around 200 million vinyl records just within the Soviet Union. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EISENBERG: With the death of Stalin, we see Nikita Khrushchev come to ...
Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.
MAYNES: By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all - the Soviet Union - was set to shutter its doors. Upheaval had gripped Moscow, and it rippled across the USSR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC ...