He enjoyed immense popularity with the Soviet audience and often gathered full houses all over the country.

In reality, no more than four or five films reached Soviet audiences by the early 1950's.

There is very little direct evidence of how Soviet audiences received the trophy films.

Perhaps because the show is not so innovative to a Soviet audience, the wait to get in has been short.

Total number of Soviet audience estimated 33 million 100 thousand.

The book will not be published in Russian, he said, because it was not necessary for the Soviet audience.

Perhaps this was the point of this version from the start - to create something new for Soviet audiences and also to entertain it.

The movie could have special significance for Soviet audiences weary of their own war in Afghanistan.

The show is the first in nearly eight years in which American artists have been shown to Soviet audiences.

Soviet audiences did not come to the music with the same expectations as Western listeners.