Dissidenty sovetskoi estrady - Kravchinskii M.E.

The Soviet government, piling up ridiculous censorship bans, restricting rights on the basis of nationality, suspecting in every word and in every note an attempt on its authority, itself made out of many representatives of creative professions dissenters. Rejection of total control, prohibitions and oppression, the search for freedom of expression pushed the heroes of this book to a difficult decision - emigration. Hence the title of the book, because the word "dissident" in Latin means "dissenting." However, despite the fact that their repertoire remained neutral and did not contain any anti-Soviet orientation, the very fact of emigration turned them in the eyes of the Soviet authorities into enemies, traitors and renegades. About how the life of yesterday's idols in the West, tells this book.It is not only about those artists who to this day remain favorites of listeners, but also about lesser-known. Emigrants are real and domestic, "non-returners" and "returnees": Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Jean Tatlyan, Eddie Rosner, Larissa Mondrus, Valery Obodzinsky, Eduard Hil, Vadim Mulerman, Janna Aguzarova and many others...