Soviet Theater: A Documentary History
Sergei Ostrovsky
(Editor)
Laurence Senelick
(Editor)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years' worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.
Product Details
Price
$168.00
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publish Date
June 24, 2014
Pages
784
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.3 X 1.8 inches | 2.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780300194760
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About the Author
Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University and a world-renowned scholar of Russian theater. Sergei Ostrovsky was an adjunct at the Red Army Theatre, a dramaturge at the Tabakov Studio Theater in Moscow, and a journalist in the Russian press.
Reviews
"Laurence Senelick and Sergel Ostrovsky have produced an essential, welcome, and much-needed sourcebook for all scholars--young and grizzled--studying Soviet, especially Russian, theatre. . . . An undoubtedly magnificent achievement, [The Soviet Theatre: A Documentary History] will provide scholars and readers with excellent tools for an analysis of Soviet Russian theatre."--Irena R. Makaryk, Canadian Slavonic Papers--Irena R. Makaryk "Canadian Slavonic Papers"
--Sarah Clovis Bishop "Slavic and East European Journal"
"This impressive history brings together a vast range of documents to tell the story of the Soviet theater from its beginnings in 1917 to its end in 1991. . . .The wide variety of material creates a rich and complex picture of life in the Soviet theater. . . . The history is an invaluable resource, bringing together a multiplicity of voices to tell the fascinating story of the Soviet theater."--Sarah Clovis Bishop, Slavic and East European Journal
--Sarah Clovis Bishop "Slavic and East European Journal"
