March Referendum Music

The March 1991 referendum asked whether the USSR should endure. These three songs trace the emotional landscape behind that choice: DDT’s anguished love of a flawed motherland, Nautilus Pompilius’s vision of shared chains and complicity, and Lyube’s streetwise alarm that something in Soviet life was about to break..

DDT. Rodina / Homeland (1992)

Nautilus Pompilius. Bound By One Chain (1986)

Liube. Atas / Heads Up! (1989)

1991

War in Karabakh Eltsin and Russian Sovereignty 500 Days Baltic Independence Shevardnadze Resigns Warsaw Pact Dissolves Miners’ Strike of 1991 March Referendum Nine Plus One Agreement The August Coup Ukrainian Independence The End of the Soviet Union