CHOBA B CCCP (Russian: Сно́ва в СССР, romanized: Snóva v SSSR, IPA: [ˈsnovə ˈv‿ɛsɛsɛsˈɛr], lit.

[4] Other tracks recorded during the sessions but not included on the Melodiya album were "I'm in Love Again" (though it was included on the subsequent international release) and "I Wanna Cry" (an original song) released on the B-side of McCartney's "This One" maxi-single in 1989, as well as "It's Now or Never" on the New Musical Express album The Last Temptation of Elvis in 1990.

[6] The title «Снова в СССР» (Snova v SSSR) is Russian for "Back in the U.S.S.R.", the name of a 1968 Beatles song.

This gave McCartney the idea to release the album in the Soviet Union as a gesture of peace in the spirit of glasnost.

A second pressing with two additional tracks, "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" and "Summertime", was released about a month later.

Despite the fact that the album was not initially released in Western markets, half of the album's songs were released as B-sides from 1987 to 1989: "Midnight Special", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Kansas City" appeared on various versions of "Once Upon a Long Ago", "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" and "Ain't That a Shame" on "My Brave Face" and an edited version of "I'm in Love Again" on "This One" single.

In 2019 Capitol Records reissued a newly mastered edition of the album in the form of the original 11-track Melodija-vinyl release.