The turning

Description:

In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Defectors,  Conduct of life,  Juvenile fiction,  Ballet dancing,  Kirov Ballet Company,  Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova,  Large type books,  Dance, fiction,  Soviet union, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Conduct of life, fiction

Places: Soviet Union,  Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Times: Attempted coup, 1991,  20th century