Livro - Russian Popular Culture

This book presents a side of Soviet life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, the stage, radio, and television, Professor Richard Stites introduces the people and cultural products that are household words to Soviet people. He demonstrates how popular culture has over the last century had more impact on the lives of Russian people and reveals more about their lives than the works of giants of high culture.