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Swans of the Kremlin : ballet and power in Soviet Russia / Christina Ezrahi.
- Title
- Swans of the Kremlin : ballet and power in Soviet Russia / Christina Ezrahi.
- Author
- Ezrahi, Christina
- Publication
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
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- Description
- 322 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "A fascinating glimpse at the collision of art and politics during the first fifty years of the Soviet period. Ezrahi shows how the producers and performers of Russia's two major ballet troupes quietly but effectively resisted Soviet cultural hegemony during this period"--
- Series Statement
- Pitt russian east european
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Survival: the Mariinsky and Bolshoi after the October revolution -- Ideological pressure: classical ballet and Soviet cultural politics, 1923-1936 -- Art versus politics: the Kirov's artistic council, 1950s-1960s -- Ballet battles: the Kirov ballet during Khrushchev's Thaw -- Beyond the iron curtain: the Bolshoi ballet in London in 1956 -- Enfant terrible: Leonid Iakobson and The Bedbug, 1962 -- Choreography as resistance: Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, 1968.
- ISBN
- 9780822962144 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012030694
- OCLC
- 794361989
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library