Recently. Our Era. 1961-1970

A new, revised, and expanded edition of the volume Recently 1961–1970 – the most comprehensive book of the series. The key Soviet decade of our era represents a mosaic of 348 events-people-phenomena. The Cuban Missile Crisis and KVN, a day... off on Saturday and the removal of Stalin from the Mausoleum, Khrushchyovka apartments and Cuba – my love!, Gagarin and Glenn, Lieutenant Rzhevsky and Pieha, the long-eared Zaporozhets and the assassination of Kennedy, prima Baryshnikov and songs by Pakhmutova, the shooting in Novocherkassk and Rodnina, KSP and communism by 1980, the exile of Brodsky and the return of Streltzov, Sorge and the earthquake in Tashkent, twist and the Taganka Theater, Magomaev and the MKAD, the ousting of Khrushchev and samizdat, the Berlin Wall and The Diamond Hand, Angelica and Americans on the Moon, construction crews and Sofia Loren, hula hoop and Red Guards, Nureyev's escape and the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, raincoat and pensions for collective farmers, the Grushinsky festival and General Secretary Brezhnev, Okudzhava and Operation “Y,” artificial fur and Indira Gandhi, the Six-Day War and six hundred square meters, In the World of Animals and the invasion of troops in Czechoslovakia, Brumel and the ballet Spartacus, amber and I Walk in Moscow, Solzhenitsyn and Spidola, mini-skirts and land reclamation, the Vietnam War and goalie Yashin, Ikarus buses and Andropov at the head of the KGB, two years in the army and wedding palaces, student Shurik and Sportloto, Cheburashka and coin minting, Oleg Popov and Ostankino, Damansky and rural prose, nylon shirts and the Druzhba oil pipeline, a day off on March 8 and Vitsin–Nikulin–Morgunov. The volume is illustrated with over 700 photographs, posters, drawings, caricatures, frames from films and series of the decade.