Conversations with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

How did artists survive in the Soviet Union? How tricky did they have to be in the face of authorities? What kind of danger and difficulties did they have to fear? Gennadi Rozhdestvensky talks about authorities, watchdogs and the political system in the former Soviet Union. Absurd, reflective, facetious, this coverage is a wittily-narrated journey through Soviet history in politics and music. With the former Soviet Union moving ever further into the past each year, first hand witness accounts such as his become ever more valuable.