How to understand “learn the dance” in this following sentence？
Each is aware of a certain truth about the Russian world, and each must navigate a political system that runs less on tyranny than on carefully calibrated compromises. A few of them succeed because they learn the dance. Others bear the burden of being principled.

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“Learn the dance” means learning how things are done in certain situations and going along with it.  Learn the rules would have about the same meaning, but, it is a bit more like learning the rules and going along with the situation to get what you want.  “Playing the game” would be very similar.

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