What was the subject of Sergey Prokofiev’s ballet Le Pas d’acier?

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Sergey Prokofiev’s ballet Le Pas d’acier (1927) was a bold evocation of images of Soviet Russia during the early 1920s, specifically highlighting the nation's economic dislocation and the beginnings of its industrialization.1