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Revolutionary Acts : Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 by Lynn Mally; National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Revolutionary Acts : Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 about?
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 fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transforme
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lynn Mally; National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Project MUSE
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501706974
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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