Tracing the emergence of rock culture in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union from 1954 to the present day, "Rock Around the Bloc" looks at both sides of the 30-year conflict between rock fans and the Communist Party. It takes the reader into the Kremlin for special Central Committee meetings devoted to the "evil" of rock music; into the streets of beleagured 1968 Prague and 1981 Poland where rock bands helped spearhead social and political reforms; and into the bedrooms of young people secretly tuning into pop broadcasts from the BBC and Radio Free Europe.