The First Five-Year Plan, 1928–1932
The First Five-Year Plan, 1928–1932
This chapter turns to the history of Soviet theater from 1928 to 1932. The Five-Year Plan was executed to make the USSR an industrial nation. While collectivization had little effect on the arts, industrialization required their full participation as impetus and propaganda. In 1928, Sovnarkom created an Arts Sector of the Commissariat of Enlightenment (Glavnoe Upravlenie delam khudozhestvennogo literatury i iskusstva), or Glaviskusstvo for short. Glavrepertkom was incorporated as an office within it and was charged with monitoring and approving all plays prior to production. Its name was changed to the Council for Belles-Lettres and Art (Sovet po khudozhestvennom literatury i iskusstv) in September 1929, and it was moved from Narkompros to Sovnarkom. A massive censorship machine was another new project under construction.
Keywords: Soviet theater, Soviet history, USSR, industrialization, Sovnarkom, Glaviskusstvo, Glavrepertkom, censorship
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