"Although this volume only explores four ways in which the Russia-Ukraine conflict has altered popular musical relations between the two countries for the foreseeable future, its detailed illustrations help to explain why the rupture cuts so deep."-CATHERINE BAKER, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 72, Issue 8
Arve Hansen is a doctoral student of Russian at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Yngvar Steinholt is Associate Professor of Russian at the UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. David-Emil Wickström is Professor of Popular Music History at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim, Germany. The author of the foreword: Artemy Troitsky is a prominent music critic and author of Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia (1987), Tusovka: Who's Who in the New Soviet Rock Culture (1990), and Subkultura: Stories of Youth and Resistance in Russia, 1815-2017 (2017).