The turning

By Gloria Whelan

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

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.