American Ballet Theater in Soviet Union
The Cold War heated up with the successful launch in 1957 of the Soviet satellite Sputnik and the 1959 Cuban Revolution, which led to the leadership of Marxist Fidel Castro, providing communists with a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. On the cultural front, the Soviet Union’s Moiseyev Dance Company took the U.S. by storm in 1956. The State Department responded by sending the American Ballet Theater to the Soviet Union in 1960.
The Cold War heated up with the successful launch in 1957 of the Soviet satellite Sputnik and the 1959 Cuban Revolution, which led to the leadership of Marxist Fidel Castro, providing communists with a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. On the cultural front, the Soviet Union’s Moiseyev Dance Company took the U.S. by storm in 1956. The State Department responded by sending the American Ballet Theater to the Soviet Union in 1960.