- Roth-Ey, Kristin. “‘Loose Girls’ on the Loose?: Sex, Propaganda and the 1957 Youth Festival.” In Women in the Khrushchev Era, edited by Melanie Ilič, Susan Emily Reid, and Lynne Attwood, 75–95. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Houndmills; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Livschiz, Ann. “Battling ‘Unhealthy Relations’: Soviet Youth Sexuality as a Political Problem.” Journal of Historical Sociology 21, no. 4 (December 2008): 397–416.
- Film: The Girls 1961
- Podcast: BBC Witness - The USSR Opens Up to the West (9 minutes)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsgc