Living vnye: The example of Bulat Okudzhava's and Vladimir Vysotskii's avtorskaia pesnia

The paper analyzes avtorskaia pesnia as a deterritorializing milieu (A. Yurchak) par excellence. In order to address the question of heterogeneity during the late Soviet socialism, the analysis does a close reading of the poetry of two prominent Russian bards, B. Okudzhava and V. Vysotskii, paying special attention to one of the most authoritative Soviet cultural myths and ideologemes, that of “motherland” (Rodina).