Whelan, Gloria <br/><br/>
The Turning. 

 - New York, NY :  HarperCollins,  2006. 
 - 210 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-06-075594-6 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union-History-Attempted coup,1991--Juv. Fiction<br/>Kirov Ballet Company--Fiction<br/>Defectors--Fiction<br/>Ballet dancing--Fiction<br/>Conduct of life--Fiction<br/>Saint Petersburg(Russia)-History 20th century--Fiction