Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison fascism and terrorism came to Moscow

and terrorism came to Moscow

and that it was Ukraine and not the US that played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union

Packed with analysis but told mainly through vibrant reportage

in territory seized from China in the nineteenth century

Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison fascism and terrorism came to MoscowFrom its scandalridden founding in 1776 to a 2013 acid attack on its director, Bolshoi Confidential exposes how the iconic Bolshoi Ballet has always been more than a stage its a mirror of Russian power, ambition and survival. Morrison traces its art, politics and dark backstage dramas across centuries of empire, revolution and reinvention. On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi