Title: The turning
First published: 2006
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)
Time periods: Attempted coup, 1991, 20th century