How the party taught the people to dance, how the choreographers helped her, and what came of it

Why did the Soviet state need rural dances on the city stage? How did Soviet choreographers invented folk dances? Why were some Soviet choreographers more fierce opponents of modern Western dances than the leaders of the CPSU? How did the participants in dance amateur performs privatized the Stalinist project of mass artistic creativity aimed at the nationalization of leisure of citizens? How did Soviet choreographic amateurism differ from analogues in other countries?
Combining the presentation of documents with historical sketches and memories of their own experience in the Soviet amateur performances of the 1960-1980s, alternately changing the research perspective and optics, the author raises these and many other issues. Offering the answers to them, the book introduces the reader to state policy regarding amateur dance in the USSR, with the ideas of professional choreographers about its tasks regarding dance folklore and amateurization, as well as with a microistory of amateur dance collective of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant