Revolutionary acts
Subtitle: amateur theater and the Soviet state, 1917-1938
By: Lynn Mally.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Amateur theater -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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 amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges.

Her book illustrates in detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.