Russian Ballet Shoes Leave Their Footprint in the West

27 October 2011 | Issue 4754

Nikolay Grishko couldn't afford to get distracted. Gorbachev's perestroika was shattering the political and economic fabric around him. As the Soviet Union collapsed, the economics professor raced around Moscow hunting for ballet shoes.

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