Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

Polyphonic How Folk Music Defeated the Soviet Union Posted: February 6, 2025 | Last updated: February 6, 2025 In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

SOHONIE: There was kind of a movement in the Soviet Union to liberalize the arts, in a sense. EISENBERG: This was maybe the first time that music didn't have to be overtly ideological. That was ...

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 ...

Born in Christopol in 1931, Gubaidulina’s intensely spiritual music marked her out as the most important Russian composer of the contemporary period.

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 ...

A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.