- Aleksander Mosolov https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/mosolov-zavod
- Boris Ivanovitch Fomin https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/c20e4f7c-ff00-4c53-8da9-cbe887e096bf
- Grigory Aleksandrov, ‘The Radiant Path’, 1940 (Women Emancipation in the early Soviet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wM1FSTIm0
- Alexander Deineka, a famous socialist realist painter, sometimes I need hopeful, cheerful illusions to survive https://arthive.com/aleksandrdeyneka/works
- Dmitri Shostakovich, ‘Suite from Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk’, 1934 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/26/classicalmusicandopera.russia
- During The Thaw, attitudes changing revealed by movies: Mikhail Kalatozov, ‘The Cranes are Flying’, 1957 / Andrei Tarkovsky, ‘Ivan’s Childhood’, 1962
- Mikhail Kalatozov, ‘I am Cuba’, 1964 https://ascmag.com/articles/flashback-soy-cuba
- Vladimir Vysotsky, ‘Utrenniaia Gimnastika’ (Morning Gymnastics), 1980. This is one of his more humorous, comic songs.
- Arvo Part, 1978, Spiegek im Spieget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-6iwqkTsQ&list=WL
- All about the Gulag W9L2 last 10 minitues
