Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet /

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Author / Creator:Lobenthal, Joel, author.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10395042
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ISBN:9780190253707
0190253703
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
Summary:"Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet state. A cast of characters drawn from all sectors of Soviet and post-Perestroika society makes this biography as encyclopedic and encompassing as a great Russian novel"--