The period between the Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's consolidation of power at the beginning of the 1930s was one of the richest and most exciting for all branches of the arts in Russia. The atmosphere of the age encouraged artists such as the director Vsevolod Meyerhold to experiment and dramatists tried to capture in their work the impact of the Revolution, civil war and early years of Soviet power. Although the Revolution itself was a major influence on drama and theatre, the questions about the very nature of theatre posed in the 1920s echoed those which had been engaging the attention of writers including Maxim Gorky and Alexander Blok and directors such as Konstantin Stanislavsky and Meyerhold since the beginning of the century. This study attempts to show how the diversity of Soviet theatre and drama of the 1920s continued the major trends of the pre-Revolutionary years.
- ISBN10 0333447581
- ISBN13 9780333447581
- Publish Date 4 March 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English