Primary Source on Soviet interest in western goods/culture 50s-70s

[Qualin, Anthony]

Dear Rachel,

There is a great scene about everyone's obsession with a stapler in the beginning of Bitov's "Bezdel'nik." An English translation as "The Idler" exists somewhere. 

Yuri Shevchuk's (DDT) song "Khipany" has a lot of English influenced slang in it and is a pretty fun song. 

I haven't watched it in a long time so my memory is fuzzy, but Gorod Zero should be good with all of its early rock and roll thematics. Okno v Parizh would be good, but it's just outside of the period you are interested in.

Tony

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Anthony Qualin
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Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Texas Tech University
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