{"id":6471,"date":"2021-10-26T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=190016"},"modified":"2021-10-26T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:58:08","slug":"how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"How a ballerina survived the Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Christina Ezrahi speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of Nina Anisimova, one of the most famous ballerinas in Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union. After being arrested for supposed counter-revolutionary activity, Anisimova was transported to a forced labour camp, only to make a remarkable return to the stage.<\/p>\n\nChristina Ezrahi is the author of Dancing for Stalin: A Dancer\u2019s Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia<\/em> (Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-tale-of-the-tailor-and-the-three-dead-kings-a-medieval-ghost-story\/9781801101295"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tale-Tailor-Three-Dead-Kings\/dp\/1801101299?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-0"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored" noopener noreferrer\">Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-tale-of-the-tailor-and-the-three-dead-kings\/dan-jones\/2928377065249"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/"\">How to download the HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\""https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextrahowaballerinasurvivedthegulag\/media.mp3"\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\""lazy"\" style=\""border-radius:\" src=\""https:\/\/historyextra.podlink.to\/Podcast?embed=true"\" width=\""480"\" height=\""900"\" frameborder=\""0"\" data-mce-fragment=\""1"\"\/><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 12:00 am Christina Ezrahi speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of Nina Anisimova, one of the most famous ballerinas in Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union. After being arrested for supposed counter-revolutionary activity, Anisimova was transported to a forced labour camp, only to make a remarkable return to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6472,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/how-a-ballerina-survived-the-gulag.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 12:00 am Christina Ezrahi speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of Nina Anisimova, one of the most famous ballerinas in Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union. After being arrested for supposed counter-revolutionary activity, Anisimova was transported to a forced labour camp, only to make a remarkable return to…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}