Viktor Tsoi and his band KINO were some of the most well-known musicians of the late 1980s in the former USSR. Their influence on Russian rock-culture has been quite large and their output started being analyzed a few years ago. One of the main themes in Tsoi’s poems and songs is rain. This work is an attempt to interpret this motif in some of Tsoi’s most important songs. The author, after his analysis, concludes that rain is always combined with some strong negative feelings, such as sadness or anger.
Vladimir Shinkarev is a famous Russian writer and painter. His Mitki and Maxim and Fedor were among the most popular underground books in Leningrad in the late 1980s. This article is devoted to studying both of these famous texts and represents an attempt to find a parody of other books or of Japanese culture. The author also analyzes Shinkarev’s literature and religious parodies in the Soviet context.
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