Twenty-five years later, the "bible of tape culture" is being reissued, dedicated to the golden era of underground recording from 1977 to 1991. Alexander Kushnir, author of key books on the history of Russian rock, spent many years researching these times, when "amplifiers burned out, homemade guitars smashed to the floor, speakers flew out of speakers, audiences out of windows, and administrators out of work." Mike Naumenko, Shevchuk, Kinchev, Butusov, Mamonov, and Yegor Letov, who were creating outside the system at the time, recorded great albums "on their knees." And the 1980s generation lived a full life without MTV and social media, avidly listening to these unique masterpieces through word of mouth, copying them from tape to tape. "Radio Africa," "Blood Type," "Separation," "County Town N," "Russian Field of Experiments." One hundred gripping stories about the heroes of the "Soviet rock underground" seem surprisingly relevant today, as these artifacts were created not for the charts, but for eternity.