Recently. Our Era. 1961-1970

The new, revised and expanded edition of the volume Recently 1961–1970 is the most extensive book in the series. The key Soviet decade of our era represents a mosaic of 348 events-people-phenomena. The Caribbean crisis and KVN, the weekend on... Saturday and the removal of Stalin from the Mausoleum, Khrushchyovkas and Cuba – my love!, Gagarin and Glenn, Lieutenant Rzhevsky and Pyekha, the ear-flapped Zaporozhets and the assassination of Kennedy, prima Plisetskaya and the songs of Pakhmutova, the shooting in Novocherkassk and Rodnina, KSP and communism by 1980, the exile of Brodsky and the return of Strelytsov, Sorge and the earthquake in Tashkent, twist and the Taganka Theater, Magomaev and MKAD, the removal of Khrushchev and samizdat, the Berlin Wall and the Diamond Arm, Angelica and Americans on the Moon, construction brigades and Sophia Loren, hula hoop and the Red Guards, Nureyev's escape and the Bratsk hydroelectric station, raincoat and pensions for collective farmers, Grushinsky Festival and General Secretary Brezhnev, Okudzhava and Operation “Y”, artificial fur and Indira Gandhi, the Six-Day War and six hundred square meters, The World of Animals and the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia, Brumel and the ballet Spartacus, amber and I Walk in Moscow, Solzhenitsyn and Spidola, mini-skirts and melioration, the war in Vietnam and goalkeeper Yashin, Ikarus buses and Andropov at the head of the KGB, two years in the army and marriage palaces, student Shurik and Sportloto, Cheburashka and coin minting, Oleg Popov and Ostankino, Damansky and village prose, nylon shirts and the Druzhba oil pipeline, the 8th of March holiday and Vitsin–Nikulin–Morgunov. The volume is illustrated with over 700 photographs, posters, drawings, caricatures, frames from films and series of the decade.