With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers
These ‘dachas’ were intended as both summer houses
the work offers a balance between ‘the communist desire for a perfectly-designed world against the real world of human competitiveness and inequality’
these sources illuminate a rich history of private and professional lives at the heart of the superpower conflict
Bush desperately wanted to preserve the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in power
War Without War: Photographs from the Former Soviet Union by Meinrad Schade zines With full access to Balanchine’sWhen does a war begin and when does it really end? Every war leaves traces, scars in the landscape, and people's resulting traumas are passed from one generation to the next. Post war times can also become the years before a war. Over ten years, from 2007 2017, Swiss photographer Meinrad Schade has recorded the precarious life oscillating between war and peace in parts of Russia, Chechnya and Ingushetia, in Kazakhstan, the Armenian Nagorno Karabakh