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Fear Before The Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union by Alexander Herbert - Book Review

I am of that age (Generation X aka The Haunted Generation) whereby a significant part of my childhood was enveloped in the Cold War fears of an impending nuclear apocalypse. A terror adequately catered for by the less than a handful of terrestrial channels emitting their cathode rays into British living rooms. Dystopian dramas such as Threads, When the Wind Blows, the eventual broadcast of the…

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What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot

Punk arrived in Soviet Russia in 1978, spreading slowly at first through black market vinyl records and soon exploding into state-controlled performance ...

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Update 4: Nearly there: And a limited-edition bonus zine! · What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk

Hi backers, Whew. 3 days to go. Just under $800 to make our goal. Thanks so much to all of you for getting us this far! To help us cross the finish line, we're adding an incentive: Alexander is producing a very-limited-edition 68-page zine, Punk in a Foreign Space, about the creation of this book—an adventure story as well as a fascinating document of what it took for an outsider to navigate the conflicting stories of the Russian punk scene's many eras. Anyone who adds $10 to their pledge will get a copy, so long as you're already getting a print copy of the book mailed to you. Please help get the word out in this book's final hours! Here's a sample social media post: Join me in backing What About Tomorrow?, a fascinating look inside Russian punk, from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microcosmpublishing/what-about-tomorrow-an-oral-history-of-russian-pun Thank you! Oh, and here's the cover of that zine:

About 30 hours and $400 to go, and now there's more cool stuff!

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A daring tale of geographic isolation, alcoholism, and punk colonialism

"In 1999 our show in MInot, North Dakota was canceled but the locals said that we could still come hang out. I gave them another chance in 2006 on a different tour. Joshua Ploeg and I put on the inaugeral event at the Red Carpet, a brand new DIY venue. We played films that I had made and he served food. We literally sold every single piece of merch that we brought with us that night. Mystified, I talked to the promoter. He explained that they are a flyover state and they have to treat performers right or they'll never come back. Fascinated, I kept coming back and became fascinated with Minot."