Following the international festival of 1957 , however , the USSR became more open to modern culture . The official ban on jazz music was removed , and many records became available in stores from the 1960s . Admiration of modern music , especially the rock-n-roll wave of the sixties , met more tolerance from official ideology and little active resistance . All this contributed to the decline of the movement in the early sixties , as former stilyagi abandoned the lifestyles of their youth , while the next generation felt no need to follow such a lifestyle in order to enjoy modern culture or a nonpolitical way of life
international festival of 1957
6th World Festival of Youth and Students
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