Question: Soviet Kitsch is the major label debut and third album by American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, the title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the vacuous aesthetics of Stalinist-style communism, a theme in his book, which 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history?

Context articles: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
The Festival of Insignificance
Reptilia (song)
Shoplifter Records
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
Us (Regina Spektor song)
Zdeněk Mlynář
Soviet Kitsch

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czech: "Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí" ) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.
 Although written in 1982, this novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as "L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être").
 The original Czech text was published the following year.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, published in 1984.
 Director Philip Kaufman and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière portray the effect on Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the 1968 Prague Spring of socialist liberalization preceding the invasion by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact that ushered in a period of communist repression.
 It portrays the moral, political, and psycho-sexual consequences for three bohemian friends: a surgeon, and two female artists with whom he has a sexual relationship.
The Festival of Insignificance (French: "La fête de l'insignifiance" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera.
 This is his eleventh fictional work.
 It is about a man named Alain, who has not seen his mother since his childhood; Ramon, an intellectual who has retired; D’Ardelo, a man who has a narcissistic personality; Charles and “Caliban” are two people who operate a catering firm; and Quaquelique is an old man who remains attracted to women.
 Quaquelique manages to seduce women using his skill at non-stop talking.
 The novel is set in Paris.
 The themes include "the erotic potential; the link between mother and child; the procreative role of sex; angels...[,] navel gazing...and insignificance.
 The novels' characters discuss the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer.
 The novel is made up of seven parts (an approach he also used in his novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being").
 The theme of insignificance was also used in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
"Reptilia" is a song by indie rock band The Strokes, and the second single from their second album "Room on Fire".
 The single's B-side contains "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men", where lead singer Julian Casablancas duets with Regina Spektor.
 The official release date was delayed slightly after Casablancas objected to the song being credited as "The Strokes and Regina Spektor", claiming that it should read "Regina Spektor and The Strokes".
Shoplifter Records was originally an English record company created by producer Gordon Raphael and Paul Harrison[disambiguation needed] as a partnership in 2003.
 Raphael has acted as producer for many bands, but most notably for The Strokes' albums Is This It?
 and Room on Fire.
↵Shoplifter signed Regina Spektor to her first contract and released the album Soviet Kitsch after teaming up with Sony S.I.N.E for international licensing.
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 ↵Other artists to pass through Shoplifter's doors are The Satellites, Anna Mercedes, Miss Machine- who were actually the first release on Shoplifter, Absinthee, Black Light and Kill Kenada, and Char Johnson.The following year saw the merger of Sony Music and BMG which also coincided with Raphael relocating to Berlin.
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 The label's first single "Your Honour" by Regina Spektor was NME single of the week, beating Brian Wilson, Robbie Williams and R.E.M. amongst others.
↵The album Soviet Kitsch was voted into the top 50 albums in the majority of that year's music press and broadsheet reviews.
 Raphael is currently producing bands internationally, but based in Berlin since 2005.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: "" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979.
 It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes.
 The book considers the nature of "forgetting" as it occurs in history, politics and life in general.
 The stories also contain elements found in the genre of Magical Realism.
In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster is an album by the Norwegian band Shining.
 It was released in 2005 by Rune Grammofon.
 The title is taken from a line in Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
"Us" is the fifth track from American singer Regina Spektor's major label debut "Soviet Kitsch".
 It was officially released as a single in 2006 for her UK compilation album "Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories by Regina Spektor".
 The song is notable for its use of a string quartet in addition to Spektor's usual piano and vocals.
 The song was also used in a UEFA Champions League Final montage, by ITV.
 This song was used in the film "(500) Days of Summer".
Zdeněk Mlynář (Müller) (22 June 1930, Vysoké Mýto – 15 April 1997, Vienna) was secretary of Czechoslovak communist party in the years 1968–1970 and an intellectual who went against the grain during a critical time in the development of Eastern European political history.
 Mlynář wrote the noteworthy political manifesto "Towards a Democratic Political Organization of Society" which was released on 5 May 1968, at the height of the Prague Spring.
 He also wrote, while in exile in Vienna, an autobiographical account of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that put an end to it in August, 1968.
 It was published in an English translation called "Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism."
Soviet Kitsch is the major label debut and third album by American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor.
 The title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the vacuous aesthetics of Stalinist-style communism, a theme in his book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
 One version of the album was released with a bonus DVD, which included a short promotional film titled "The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch" and the music video for the song "Us".