Week 8 Resources: Music and Soviet Dissent

Here is our playlist of Soviet Bard Songs for week 8. Some of them were only available in Russian, so here is the complete list:

  1. Bulat Okudzhava, “Song of the Arbat.” English lyrics here: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/piesienka-ob-arbatie-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%BE%D0%B1-%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5-song-about-arbat.html
  2. Bulat Okudzhava, “Paper Soldier” (English subtitles in video)
  3. Vladimir Vysotskii, “Capricious Horses” (English subtitles in video)
  4. Vladimir Vysotskii, “My Friend Went to Magadan” (English subtitles in video). N.B.: Magadan is the name of a famous Soviet prison camp, part of the “Gulag Archipelago.”
  5. Alexander Galich, “Clouds.” English lyrics here: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/oblaka-clouds.html-1