Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia by Christina Ezrahi

Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia

Christina Ezrahi

322 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the So...

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