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Vladimir Vysotsky, Russia\\u2019s beloved balladeer, would have turned 75 this week. Though he died more than three decades ago, at the age of 42, he is still revered as a singer and poet who captured the mood, and the soul, of a dejected generation. But while Vysotsky\\u2019s music and persona clearly spoke to a particular time and place (the USSR in the post-Stalinist \\u201cThaw\\u201d era), his songs have been adopted by social movements all over the world, including, most recently, Israel\\u2019s tent protesters during the summer of 2011.

Today, on Vox Tablet, Liel Leibovitz looks at the too-short life, and enduring afterlife, of this remarkable man and considers what it is that makes his ballads so resonant for so many. [Running time: 10:11.]

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