Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
The Soviet TheaterA Documentary History$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History

Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780300194760

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2015

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300194760.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM YALE SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.yale.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Yale University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in YSO for personal use.date: 11 April 2021

Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.1) Introduction
Source:
The Soviet Theater
Author(s):

Laurence Senelick

Sergei Ostrovsky

Publisher:
Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300194760.003.0001

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the history of Soviet theater. It describes the importance of the theater as a profession in the Russian Empire; the founding of the Moscow Art Theater in 1898; theater in the decade leading up to the outbreak of the Great War; theater under the Soviet regime; Stalin's influence in the arts; and theater following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Keywords:   Soviet theater, Russian Empire, Moscow Art Theater, history, Great War, Stalin

Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.