The period between the Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's coming to power in the early 1930s was one of the most exciting for all branches of the arts in Russia. This study tries to show how the diversity of the Soviet arts of the 1920s continued the major trends of the pre-Revolutionary years.

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University of Sheffield, UK

Robert Russell

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Book Title: Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period
Authors: Robert Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09721-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09723-4Published: 01 January 1988
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09721-0Published: 18 June 1988
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 186
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fine Arts

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Russian Drama before the Revolution

Soviet Drama, 1917–21

The Civil War in Soviet Drama

Bulgakov’s The White Guard and Flight

Satirical Comedy and Melodrama

The Plays of Nikolay Erdman

Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug and Bathhouse

Indirect Social Comment

Towards Socialist Realism

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