num_pages: 160
description: "The only authoritative first-hand account of the history and development of rock music in the Soviet Union over the past 25 years, written by the foremost expert on Soviet rock, Artemy Troitsky." (From the book) "If the far flung and chronically disorganized Soviet rock culture has a single focus it is Art Troitsky...(he) is uniquely placed to tell the history of Soviet rock because so much of it would not have been made without him." Martin Walker, The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, in his forward to Back in the USSR.
language: English
title: Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia
publisher: Faber & Faber