Nikolai Evreinov & others : the storming of the winter palace / edited by Inke Arns, Igor Chubarov, and Sylvia Sasse ; translated by Bernard Heise, David Riff, and Jordan Lee Schnee ; with the editorial assistance of Andri Hürlemann.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Arns, Inke, editor.
• Chubarov, Igor, editor.
• Sasse, Sylvia, editor.
• Heise, Bernard, translator.
• Riff, David, translator.
• Schnee, Jordan Lee, translator.
• Hürlemann, Andri, contributor.

Series:

• Think art (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Think Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Evreinov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich), 1879-1953--Criticism and interpretation.
• Russian drama--20th century--History and criticism.
• Russian drama--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Nikolai Evreinov and others

Place of Publication:

Zurich, [Switzerland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : Diaphanes, 2016.

Summary:

In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers--as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks--in The Storming of the Winter Palace.

Contents:

• Nikolai Evreinov: »The Storming of the Winter Palace
• Foreword
• The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920)
• The Storming of the Winter Palace
• Open-Air Theater (1920)
• A Miracle (1920)
• The Mass as Such (1920)
• What is required of the Audience during the Production (1920)
• November Eight 1920 (1920)
• Baltic Sea (1932)
• On Mass Actions and More Important Things (1932)
• Nikolai Evreinov (1960)
• Mass Spectacles (1960)
• Photographs of the 1920 staging in sequence
• Announcement of the Decoration of Petrograd during the Third Anniversary Celebrations of October (1920)
• On the October Celebrations (1920)
• The Staging of the Storming of the Winter Palace (1920)
• An Exhibition in Memory of the Great October (1920)
• At a Rehearsal for the Staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920)
• Motion Pictures and the Staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920)
• Proletarian Action
• On Uritski Square (Impression of a Muscovite) (1920)
• The Chaos of the Arts (1921)
• The Pageants of 1920 (1922)
• The Successes of the New Theater (1922)
• Theatricalized Life (1926)
• The Monumentalist Style of the Revolutionary Spectacles (1930)
• The Theaters and Pageants of Petrograd in the Epoch of War Communism (1933)
• Cinema and Theater. Nikolai Evreinov (1943)
• History is Written with the Lens (1971)
• Photographs of the theatrical storming of the Winter Palace as historical documents
• Nikolai Evreinov's "Revolution In Itself"
• "History is Written with the Lens": How the Photo of the Theatrical Storming becomes a Historical Document
• Battlefield History: Artistic Reenactments as Participatory Deconstructions of History.
• List of figures
• Glossary
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 23, 2018).
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-0358-0020-0

OCLC:

1016156271