ANATOLII LUNACHARSKII AND THE SOVIET THEATER
Journal: The Mathematics Enthusiast
Year: 2015

My thesis is primarily concerned with tracing the Soviet theater's trajectory from a relatively polyphonic, even kaleidoscopic, fearless art form to a narrower, formulaic one under Stalin at the end of the1920s.I examine this evolution through the lens of the career of Anatolii Lunacharskii (1875-1933), who was the head of the Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompros) from 1917 to 1929.In the twelve years that encompass Lunacharskii's tenure at Narkompros, I use four plays as focal points to ex