Soviet Theater: A Documentary History

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 yearsand#8217; 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.

Laurenceand#160;Senelickand#160;is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University and a world-renownedand#160;scholar of Russian theater. Sergeiand#160;Ostrovskyand#160;wasand#160;an adjunct at the Red Army Theatre,and#160;aand#160;dramaturgeand#160;atand#160;theand#160;Tabakovand#160;Studioand#160;Theaterand#160;in Moscow, and aand#160;journalistand#160;in the Russian press.