However, it does not mean that she conquered the Bolshoi Theatre only due to her natural talent. In stark contrast, to a significant extent, it was not only talent but also a hard toil and regular training and practice that eventually made Maya Plisetskaya the ballet dancer acclaimed at the global scale. In fact, her work in the Bolshoi theatre and the roles she performed there were also marked by numerous problems and endless petty harassments she endured, as she wrights in her book “I, Maya Plisetskaya”, from both “envious colleagues and Party officials” (179).
Furthermore, she was still discriminated. Regardless the fact that she performed the main roles in the Bolshoi theatre, she still could not get permission for six years to tour with the company that was really strange and logically inexplicable. In fact, the only explanation was the Soviet totalitarian system that kept repressing its people, even such outstanding ones as Maya Plisetskaya. At the same time, for her in person it was still the same struggle with the Soviet regime which cruelty she had already faced in her early childhood. This is why she get used to constant resistance from the part of officials and her discrimination as a Jewish ballet dancer whose parents were repressed.
Eventually, the Soviet regime did not manage to cope with her insistence, her hard work, and, finally, her greatest talent and in 1959 the world got to learn the name of Maya Plisetskaya and admired her performance. In fact, since this international debut it is possible to speak about her victorious performance.
However, it was not just a victory that won hearts and minds of the world audience and brought her the world glory and acclaim but it was a defeat of the Soviet system which could not stop her progress and popularity worldwide. On the other hand, it is worthy to note that even being a well-known ballet dancer worldwide Maya Plietskaya was still under pressure and in her book she recalls how she was close to starvation and KGB plots to capitalize on her friendship with Robert Kennedy.