The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road t...
O'Neill, John E. / Wynne, Sarah C. / Niemand, Russell
God is on your side? Is he a conservative? The Devil is on my side, he's a good communist.--Joseph StalinIn the wee hours of January 23, 1931, the world's greatest ballerina lay dying. As her lungs filled with fluid, the exiled Russian, Anna Pavlova, gasped to doctors that she had been poisoned by food in Paris, but to no avail. To a watching world, she symbolized the glories of pre-Soviet Russia. And for that, she had to die.Joseph Stalin, ch...