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Dancing for Stalin : A True Story of Love and Survival in Soviet Russia, Hardback Book

Dancing for Stalin : A True Story of Love and Survival in Soviet Russia Hardback

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Nina Anisimova was born in 1909 in imperial St Petersburg.

One of the most renowned character dancers of the Stalinist period, she won her way into the hearts of her audience over many decades.

Yet few knew that her exemplary career was a fragile construct built atop a dark secret. In 1938, at the height of the Great Terror, Nina vanished.

Only a handful of people knew that this famous dancer had not only been arrested by Secret Police as a Nazi Spy, but sentenced to forced labour in a camp in Kazakhstan.

There, her art would become a salvation, giving her a reason to fight for her life when she found herself without winter clothes in temperatures of minus 40 degrees. Over the coming weeks, Nina's husband, Kostia Derzhavin, began to piece together what had happened to his wife.

What he decided to do next was almost without precedent - to take on the ruthless Soviet state to prove her innocence.

He would put himself in danger to save the woman he loved.

Dancing for Stalin is a remarkable true story of suffering and injustice of courage, resilience and love.

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