Performing Justice
Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia
After seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating and bringing culture to the vast and often illiterate mass of Soviet soldiers, workers, and peasants. As part of this campaign, civilian educators and political instructors in the military developed didactic theatrical fictions performed in workers' and soldiers' clubs in the years from 1919 to 1933. The subjects addressed included politics, religion, agronomy, health, sexuality, and literature. The trials were designed to permit staging by amateurs at low cost, thus engaging the citizenry in their own remaking. In reconstructing the history of the so-calle…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-1147-3
- EAN: 9781501711473
- Produktnummer: 27415962
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 19'774 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 tables, 22 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Elizabeth A. Wood
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