Ais Kapeids. Amerikanskiy balet na l'du. Gastroli v SSSR [Ice Capades. American Ballet on Ice. Tour in the USSR], 1961. In Russian

[Program for the 1961 Soviet tour] Ais Kapeids. Amerikanskiy balet na l'du. Gastroli v SSSR. [Ice Capades. American Ballet on Ice. Tour in the USSR].
Artists: L. Ratner, A. Iozefovich, V. Gordon.
State Concert of the USSR (Goskontsert SSSR), May-June 1961.
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1961.
14 p.; 25 cm.

This 1961 booklet is the original program for the historic Soviet tour of the American "Ice Capades" ice ballet, presented by the USSR State Concert organization (Goskontsert). The tour in May-June 1961 was a significant cultural event during the Cold War, representing a moment of cultural exchange and "thaw" in US-Soviet relations, taking place in the same year as Yuri Gagarin's space flight and the Bay of Pigs invasion. The program was published by the state arts publisher "Iskusstvo" and features distinctive cover and interior design by Soviet artists L. Ratner, A. Iozefovich, and V. Gordon. This ephemeral publication served as a guide for the audience and is now a rare collectible artifact of cultural diplomacy, of interest to historians of the Cold War, Soviet performing arts, and graphic design of the early 1960s.