Three weeks into Russia’s war against Ukraine, the chorus and orchestra at Odesa’s opera house gathered outside the building to send a message to fellow Ukrainians, to the Russians and to the rest of ...

During the harshest days of Soviet censorship, it was nearly impossible — and also very risky — to get a hold of Western music. But people in the Soviet Union became experts at devising creative, ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among modern high-rises in the heart of Tel Aviv, a few hundred spectators are kindly requested to turn off their ...

Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that's as scathing as any tune in the folk legend's long career. "I'm ...

Other recently digitized collections include photographs taken by two Americans living in a nascent Soviet Union, and a Union soldier’s private collection of cartes-de-visites of “Officers of Army and ...

A concert of Jewish music and Yiddish songs, the first since the Lithuanian Republic Joined the Soviet Union, has been presented at the Lithuanian holiday resort of Palange, where a huge square was ...

We renounce the old world (Workers Marseillaise) -- The red flag -- Varshavianka -- Boldly, comrades, in step -- -- We are the blacksmiths -- The Red Army is the most powerful of all -- Shooting of ...

Sir Paul McCartney says The Beatles song 'Back in the U.S.S.R' was a nod to The Beach Boys and Chuck Berry. The song, which is a parody of Berry's 1959 hit 'Back in the USA', tells the story of a ...