Totalitarizm () is the sixth album of Grazhdanskaya Oborona. One of a series of albums from 1987 by Grazhdanskaya Oborona, along with "Myshelovka (Mousetrap)", "Khorosho!! (Good)", "Nekrofiliya (Necrophilia)" and "Krasnyy albom (Red album)". Like for every album from this series, Egor Letov plays alone on all instruments. The album "Totalitarizm" became the most extensive album in the series in terms of the number of songs, so part of the songs was released on other albums (Khorosho!! and Nekrofiliya).
Background In the song No.6 (Totalitarizm) Letov used a double guitar solo for the first time. The prototype for the major general from the song No.1 (Mi - Lyod) was KGB agent Vladimir Vasilyevich Meshkov, who was in charge of the Egor Letov's case. Song No.2 (Zapodlo) is an authobiography of the band.Initially, Letov wanted to record song No.11 together with Yevgenii Lishenko (author of the song) but due to him being drunk, he rejected. Instead Letov recorded this song by himself after he got drunk drinking 10 liters of Omsk draft beer.
Track listing
Song No.11 did not get released on reissue CD because of copyright issues.
References
External links
Totalitarizm on Discogs Album on official website