Table of Contents:
  • The Soviet popular song after Stalin
  • Lyric or civic: personality and theatricality
  • Why sing estrada? Philosophical contexts of the genre
  • Edita Pekha: gentle voice of the thaw
  • Iosif Kobzon and the civic response
  • Irina Ponarovskaia and Sofiia Rotaru : in and out of Russia
  • Lev Leshchenko and Valerii Leont'ev: two nightingales
  • Alla Pugacheva: redefinine estrada
  • Alla Pugacheva: redefining personality.