The Soviet Theater : A Documentary History / Laurence Senelick, Sergei Ostrovsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ostrovsky, Sergei, Editor.

Senelick, Laurence, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Soviet Union--History.

Theater.

Theater--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Theater and state--Soviet Union--History.

Theater and state.

Theater and state--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 753 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years' worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter One. The Revolution, 1917-1919

Chapter Two. The Civil War, 1919-1921

Chapter Three. The New Economic Policy, 1921-1926

Chapter Four. Stalin Consolidates Power, 1926-1927

Chapter Five. The First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932

Chapter Six. The Second Five-Year Plan and the Great Terror, 1933-1938

Chapter Seven. The Great Patriotic War, 1939-1945

Chapter Eight. The Cold War Begins, 1946-1953

Chapter Nine. The So-Called Thaw and the Refrigeration, 1954-1963

Chapter Ten. Innovation within Stagnation, 1964-1984

Chapter Eleven. Glasnost' and Perestroika, 1985-1992

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21135-X

OCLC:

889798025