Dancing for Stalin: A True Story of Extraordinary Courage and Survival in the Soviet Gulag - Couverture souple

Ezrahi, Christina

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ISBN 10 : 178396698X ISBN 13 : 9781783966981

Editeur : Elliott & Thompson Limited, 2023

Synopsis

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">___</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">An innocent woman sent to the Gulag. A passion that gave her the will to survive.</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">‘Shattering, cinematic and brave’ Simon Morrison, author of Bolshoi Confidential</span></span>

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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">Nina Anisimova was one of Russia’s most renowned ballerinas and one of the first Soviet female choreographers. Yet few knew that her exemplary career concealed a dark secret.</span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">In 1938, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, Nina was arrested by the secret police, accused of being a Nazi spy and sentenced to forced labour in a camp in Kazakhstan. Trapped without hope – and without winter clothes in temperatures of minus 40 degrees – her art was her salvation, giving her a reason to fight for her life.</span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">As Nina struggled to survive in the Gulag, her husband fought for her release in Leningrad. Against all odds, she was ultimately freed and astonishingly managed to return to her former life, just as war broke out. Despite wartime deprivation and the suffocating grip of Stalin’s totalitarian state, Nina’s irrepressible determination set her on the path to become an icon of the Kirov Ballet.</span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">A remarkable true story of suffering and injustice, of courage, resilience and triumph.</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">___</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">‘Nina Anisimova’s story is extraordinary – heroic and harrowing in equal measure, a snapshot of the best and worst of Stalin’s Russia – and Christina Ezrahi does it vivid, gripping justice.’</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;"> Judith Mackrell, author of <span class="a-text-italic">The Unfinished Palazzo</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">‘Christina Ezrahi vividly charts this brutal and uplifting story, bringing alive an extraordinary resourcefulness and determination to survive.’</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;"> Helen Rappaport, author of <span class="a-text-italic">The Race to Save the Romanovs</span></span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">‘Christina Ezrahi has uncovered a remarkable, untold episode in Soviet ballet history, which she brings to life through her customary rigorous research, clarity of expression and elegance of prose.’</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;"> Baroness Deborah Bull</span>

<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt 0in;"><span class="a-text-bold"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;">‘An inspiring tale of survival against the odds. Ezrahi's diligent scholarship casts much-needed light on ballet history's darkest chapter.’</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0f1111;"> Luke Jennings, dance critic and author of <span class="a-text-italic">Killing Eve</span></span>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christina Ezrahi is an award-winning historian of Soviet cultural politics and Russian ballet. Before undertaking her doctoral studies at University College London, she studied International Relations at the universities of Princeton and Oxford, and worked in Moscow for the United Nations. Her first book, Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press) was awarded the 2017 prize for Best Dance Book published in France. Christina appears in the media as an expert on the relationship between Russian politics and ballet and has recently acted as historical advisor to Ralph Fiennes on a film about Rudolf Nureyev. Born in Munich, Christina lives in Berlin with her husband and two children, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is also a trained classical dancer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178396698X
• ISBN 13: 9781783966981
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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