How a ballerina survived the Gulag
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Ballet and Russia in the Eighteenth Century
ballet is probably the one most closely associated with russia. M, and its played an unusually central roll throughout the twentieth century. For the communists, a ballet was really seen as a very decadent after dinner entertainment for the elites. The soviet regime realized how powerful art can be but also feared that if it expresses ideas am not close to the regime, that it would be dangerous.
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