Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781852731588 (1852731583)
Publish date: March 1st 2013
Publisher: Dance Books
Pages no: 338
Edition language: English
Great overview of the process by which ballet, that most aristocratic of arts, became a major cultural expression of Soviet Russia, protected and supported by the communist state. The author focuses on the lesser-known 1950s and 1960s, although she gives a solid survey of the period before and an ef...