Performing Justice : : Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia / / Elizabeth A. Wood.
After seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating and bringing culture to the vast and often illiterate mass of Soviet soldiers, workers, and peasants. As part of this campaign, civilian educators and political instructors in the military developed didactic theat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A Question Of Origins
- 2. Experimental Trials In The Red Army, 1919-20
- 3. The Trial Of Lenin
- 4. Teaching Politics Through Trials, 1921-23
- 5. The Culture Of Everyday Life, 1922-24
- 6. Melodrama In The Service Of Science
- 7. The Trial Of The New Woman
- 8. The Crisis In The Clubs And The Erosion Of The Public Sphere
- 9. Shaming The Boys Who Smoke Cigarettes
- 10. Fiction Becomes Indistinguishable From Reality, 1928-33
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Archives Consulted
- Notes
- Index