Revolutionary Acts
<p>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 Ac...
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| description | <p>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 fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.<p><p>Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally's analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously ""from below"" or was imposed by the revolutionary elite. She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.<p> |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-584342022-01-31T12:39:55Z Revolutionary Acts Mally, Lynn DK1-4735 theatre socialist realism amateur theatre agitprop Russian revolution Soviet Union Leningrad Theatre of Working Class Youth <p>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 fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.<p><p>Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally's analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously ""from below"" or was imposed by the revolutionary elite. She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.<p> 2021-02-12T02:13:24Z 2021-02-12T02:13:24Z 2016-10-26 08:56:43 2000 book 19898 9781501707209 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58434 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22125721/9781501707209.pdf http://www.cornellopen.org/9781501707209/revolutionary-acts/ http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22125721/9781501707209.pdf Cornell University Press 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501707209 264 open access |
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