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Dances Her Way to Liberty From Bolshevism
A sixteen year old Russian dancer Luna Nester flees Petrograd after the Bolshevik upheaval with her mother grandmother and brother. In exile she dances for the White Army to fund their escape and later travels via Red Cross aid to Japan and the United States hoping to return to Russia someday with her family.
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Czarevitch
America
Luna
Petrograd
Russia
White
Luna Nestor
Imperial Ballet
New York City
Luna Nester
Nester
Moscow
New York
Luna Nestet
Una
Russias
Tearskos Selo
Empire
Biberia
Vladivostok
American Red Cross
A _lea
Red Cross
Japan
Lana
Pacific Ocean
American Young Men's Christian Association
Tuna
Seattle
Big City
Safe and Sound