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

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

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"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...

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Main Author: Mally, Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1917-1938.
Amateur theater > Soviet Union.
Amateurtoneel.
Laienspiel
Amateur theater.
24.11 history of drama.
Theâtre d'amateurs > Histoire.
Amateur theater > Soviet Union > History.
Sowjetunion
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"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, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781501706974
Access:Open Access

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