--Literature and Culture in the Sixties and Seventies

Links:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (A brief biography)

Yevtushenko's "The Execution of Stenka Razin" 

Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar"

Works by Ernst Neizvestny:

"Composition with Human Head"
"Mask in Hand"
"Heart of Christ"

Optional:

Notes

Some poems by Joseph Brodsky

Some Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Loss" a Recent Poem by Yevtushenko

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--Guitar Poetry

Links:

Alexander Galich

Galich's "Prospector's Waltz"

Bulat Okudzhava

Bulat Okudzhava's "Song about the Arbat"

Vladimir Vysotsky

Vladimir Vysotsky Biography

Vysotsky's Grave

Optional:

The "Official" Vysotsky Page (Mostly in Russian with some materials in other languages)

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--Glasnost and Perestroika

Links:

Yuri Andropov (Wikipedia)

Konstantin Chernenko (Wikipedia)

Mikhail Gorbachev (Wikipedia)

A Big Picture of Gorbachev

Perestroika

Optional:

The Effects of Glasnost and Perestroika on Education

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