Feeling a bit jazzy today? Not in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The USSR and jazz had a love-hate relationship ever since the country’s formation in the early 1920s: the officials hated it, the youth loved it.
Read moreJazz in the USSR: Freedom, Popular Culture, and ‘the Decadent West’
Still from Valery Todorovsky’s 2008 musical Stilyagi. Image source: http://popkult.org/hipsters/.