Christina Ezrahi Libri

A fascinating glimpse at the collision of art and politics during the volatile first fifty years of the Soviet period. Christina Ezrahi shows how the producers and performers of Russia's two major troupes quietly but effectively resisted Soviet cultural hegemony during this period.

The true story of one couple's fight for survival in Stalin's Russia: a famous ballerina, sent to the Gulag, and her husband, who found a way to save her against all odds.