How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essantially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the KGB? Zhuk assesses the impact of Westernization on the city's youth, examining the degree to which the intake of Western music, movies, and literature ultimately challenged the ideological control by state officials. One among many of his stories is how the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar led Dniepropetrovsk's young people...
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How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essantially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the KGB? Zhuk assesses the impact of Westernization on the city's youth, examining the degree to which the intake of Western music, movies, and literature ultimately challenged the ideological control by state officials. One among many of his stories is how the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar led Dniepropetrovsk's young people to embrace not one, but two Soviet taboos: rock music and Christianity.
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