Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia / Janice Ross ; fo...
Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia / Janice Ross ; fo...
Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia / Janice Ross ; foreword by Lynn Garafola.
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Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/608
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 522 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet conditi...
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Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia / Janice Ross ; foreword by Lynn Garafola.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/608
Record Identifier
74VKO3L477Qd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO3L477Qd
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ISBN
0300207638 hardback
9780300207637 hardback
DDC
792.8/0947
MMS ID
991022491519702626
