Stalin's brutal state clampdown on anything out of step with the regime changed the course of many lives, including some of the most important figures in ballet' The Bolt: Shostakovich's banned ballet " in picturesIn Soviet Russia in 1930, the cultural energies of the revolution " the jazz, the constructivist art, the Meyerhold experiments in theatre " were still alive and bubbling. But Stalin was already turning rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AM on December 31, 2014