Lyudmila Gurchenko obituary by Ronald Bergan

Popular Russian film star and entertainer who brought a light touch to the Soviet eraAfter Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin's "cult of personality" at the 20th party congress in February 1956, political and cultural life in the Soviet Union underwent many changes. One of the first films to benefit from "the thaw" was Eldar Ryazanov's musical-comedy Carnival Night (1956), starring Lyudmila Gurchenko, who has…

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