About the book: 2016 / Dedicated to the anniversary of perestroika in the USSR. This unique collection includes more than 1000 photographs from the personal archives of participants in youth subcultural movements of the 1980s. When Soviet society was seriously faced with the phenomenon of open youth protest against ideological and cultural stagnation, on the one hand, and persecution of the “non-Soviet way of life”, on the other. In conditions when only slogans remained in reality from a Soviet society that had reached a dead end and was entangled in contradictions, punks, rockers, new wavers and other “outcasts” of that time themselves became a new ideology and cultural orientation. Their amateur creativity, cultural self-expression, appearance and musical preferences resulted in a “festival of disobedience” and public disobedience to the pressure of the dying Soviet ideology that lasted almost five years. Pressure and persecution of music lovers and fashionistas led to the formation of a new, marginal communication that developed under rather harsh conditions, entangling all social levels of many Soviet cities by the end of the decade. This publication presents the first attempt at such a large-scale study and an attempt to articulate the styles and directions of this tangle of informal relationships, through a chronologically and stylistically consistent photo array equipped with a polyphony of opinions from more than 65 existential confidential conversations held in the period 2006–2014 in Moscow and Leningrad.