Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1. Survival: The Mariinsky and Bolshoi after the October Revolution
2. Ideological Pressure: Classical Ballet and Soviet Cultural Politics, 1923–1936
3. Art versus Politics: The Kirov’s Artistic Council, 1950s–1960s
4. Ballet Battles: The Kirov Ballet during Khrushchev’s Thaw
5. Beyond the Iron Curtain: The Bolshoi Ballet in London in 1956
6. Enfant Terrible: Leonid Iakobson and The Bedbug, 1962
7. Choreography as Resistance: Yuri Grigorovich’s Spartacus, 1968
Conclusion
Appendix 1: A Who’s Who
Appendix 2: Ballets
Notes
Bibliography
Index