Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938

Author/Contributor(s):	Mally, Lynn
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	11/01/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...