Strange Case of a Regional Cultural Revolution: Sverdlovsk in the Perestroika Years

The article discusses the cultural revolution that took place in Sverdlovsk during the years of Perestroika and transformed rock-music, visual art, theatre, cinema, and literature. Hypothetically, these tendencies embodied not attempts to establish regional cultural identity but, on the contrary, artists' striv­ing to liberate themselves from regional and, more broadly, Soviet cultural models and invent new cultural languages of national and frequently global scope.В статье рассматривается культурная революция, происходившая в Свердловске в годы перестройки