The Theater in Soviet Russia / / Nikolai A. Gorchakov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gorchakov, Nikolai A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lehrman, Edgar.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 1957
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Slavic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Part One: The Russian Theater before the Revolution --; I. Theater Conditions in the Nineteenth Century --; II. The Moscow Art Theater from 1898 to October, 1917 --; III. The Great Innovators of the Pre-Revolutionary Theater --; Part Two: The First Decade, 1917 to 1927 --; IV. February to October, 1917 --; V. Bolshevism Assigns a Role to the Theater --; VI. Acceptable Subjects for Acceptable Plays --; VII. Heyday --; Part Three: The Second Decade, 1927 to 1937 --; VIII. The Full-Scale Attack on the Theater --; IX. Plays Based on Party Slogans --; X. Last Flickers of Originality --; Part Four: The Tragic Ending, 1937 to 1952 --; XI. The Complete Standardization of the Soviet Theater --; XII. Wartime Patriotism and Postwar Propaganda --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897792; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/gorc94260
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nikolai A. Gorchakov.

Looks at the theater in Soviet Russia and the price paid through government funding from 1917-1950. Studies the loss of creative freedom that came with the complete subsidy by the Soviet government.