Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938.

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mally, Lynn (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press Nov. 2016.
Subjects:	Amateur theater > Soviet Union > History. Théâtre d'amateurs > Histoire. Théâtre d'amateurs > URSS > Histoire. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Amateur theater Soviet Union PERFORMING ARTS & DRAMA HISTORY SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY Russia arts performance amateur theater groups new socialist culture cultural revolution elite culture mass culture propaganda Stalinist Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Revolution Loves the Theater
2. Small Forms on Small Stages
3. From "Club Plays" to the Classics
4. TRAM: The Vanguard of Amateur Art
5. Shock Workers on the Cultural Front
6. Amateurs in the Spectacle State
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index