His ballets represent a further development of Russia's own theatrical tradition, a hardy offshoot of European ballet that not only predates but also has survived Communism and has not ceased to bear fruit.

This book follows on her earlier collection of essays, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, published in 1992.

She collected a series of her essays into a book called "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed," and quickly emerged as the first critic to describe the failings of Marxism from a feminist perspective.

They worry that their Hasidic movement, which is 300 years old and has survived pogroms, Communism and the Holocaust, will become confused with a cult.

For millions of Russians who had survived Communism and didn't want to go backward, that was enough.

Emphasis should be given to survivors in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who survived both Nazism and Communism.

A new wave of the poignant, powerful humor that helped Russian Jews survive czarism, Communism and anti-Semitism has made the crossing to America, battered but as indomitable as ever.

They'd survived Mongols and Ottomans, Russian Tsars and Communism and still kept their soul.

In her book, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Slavenka Drakulic vividly illustrates that for all its idealistic claims, Communism ignored the basic needs of women.

The couple, Boris Uteshev and Lyudmila Sebina, had survived Communism, but they were still stuck with drab Soviet-era wallpaper and East German furniture.