Design and Architecture
Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in Soviet Russia
In the 1960s, the hippie movement flourished in California, quickly spread throughout the country and then overseas - to the Soviet Union. Juliane Fürst is a historian at the University of Bristol in the UK, specializing in late Soviet culture.
By Frances Anderton • • 1 min readIn the 1960s, the hippie movement flourished in California, quickly spread throughout the country and then overseas - to the Soviet Union.
Cardboard-mounted plastic-covered image of two hippies in blue jeans, with various rock music and political stickers on the sides, referencing, among other things, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and the Polish underground workers’ union Solidarity, c. 1982. Image courtesy of The Wende Museum of the Cold War.
