Stage fright
Subtitle: politics and the performing arts in late Imperial Russia
By: Paul du Quenoy.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780271034676
Subjects: Performing arts -- Political aspects -- Russia; Theater -- Political aspects -- Russia; Performing arts -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Theater -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917
Description: "Explores the relationship between culture and power in Imperial Russia. Argues that Russia's performing arts were part of a vibrant public culture that was usually ambivalent or hostile to the tumultuous political events of the revolutionary era"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "An aspiration to novelty" : contours of the performing arts in late Imperial russia; title: "Such a risky time" : arts institutions and the challenge of politics; title: "Politics are death" : Imperial theater performers; title: "Our theater will not strike!" : private and popular theater performers; title: "You dare not make sport of our nerves!" : the audiences; title: "A new bayreuth will save no one" : Russian modernism and its discontents; title: "Art must be apolitical" : a conclusion.