Dean BowmanMrs. JohnstonAP European HistoryApril 2, 2014Safonov, Mikhail. “'You say you want a revolution'” History Today August 1, 2003: 46-51. Print.By the mid-1900s, communism was in full force throughout Russia. Under Leonid Brezhnev, the Communist Party had reached new heights and become a dictatorial power within the Russian state. With this government force dominating the lives of every citizen, the country's population was left with little to no freedom. The Communist Party had, until the 1960s, maintained a strong hand over the Russian people, suppressing all threats to the establishment. In the early 1960s, a whole new threat arose in Russia: the arrival of the sensational rock group known as The Beatles. In “You Say You Want a Revolution,” Mikhail Safonov, himself a Beatles fan, describes his profound proposition that the popular group did more than provide music to the Russian people. The Beatles have become an icon of the world outside Russia. The group inspired ideas that opposed the ideology of the Communist Party and in turn played...