The Dancer and The Devil – Stalin, Pandemics and Ballet

Today we are joined by the authors of the book Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavola and the Road to the Great Pandemic to talk about how the totalitarian communists regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries crushed not only art and culture, but very likely set the stage for even worse destruction.

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John O’Neill and Sarah C. Wynne
https://www.danceranddevil.com/

Maria Pavlova and The Dying Swan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFSBkl9mmo

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Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast, where we talk about great movies and stories so great they should be movies Of course, a big thanks goes out to John O’Neill and Sarah Wynne. Links to learn more about John and Sarah’s book The Dancer and The Devil: Stalin, Pavlova and the Road to the Great Pandemic can be found at danceranddevil.com or in the Show Notes. Some of what you will hear in today’s episode could be labeled as controversial. I don’t agree with everything the authors’ said and I don’t disagree with everything they said. I appreciate their willingness to share their point of view with me and with you. I would love to hear what you think about this episode and any other episode you feel strongly about.
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