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The Russian Theatre After Stalin | 
 enlarge | Author: Anatoly Smeliansky
Creators: Laurence Senelick, Patrick Miles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1100454
Media: Paperback
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 270
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0521587948
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.094709045
EAN: 9780521587945
ASIN: 0521587948
Publication Date: June 1, 1999
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Product Description
This is the first book to explore theater in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyze contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theater, highlighting the social and political events that shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.
Book Description
This is the first book to explore theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.
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Courage and Subtlety in Soviet Russia June 27, 2007
Anatoly Smeliansky has told a tale of creative spirit surviving in an intellectual Gulag. The struggle of art, theater, and creativity to have life rivals the other world tenacity of tube worms living at volcanic ports on the ocean floor. The remarkable achievement of Russian theatre to provide intellectual nourishment to a nation, and its course of evolution during the decline and fall of Soviet Communism shines a light upon the individual's drive to be unique in an environment too often demonized in American portrayals. The theatrical stories involve names of actors, directors, and writers, mostly unknown to me, but as the story played on, in three acts, Dr. Smeliansky made them come alive. Their triumphs, failures and leaps are given a marquee exhibition in a history unvarnished . Wrapped in drama , this insider's slalom and struggle through politicians, censors, bureaucrats, and quislings plays out in as Russian a presentation as could be imagined, with hundreds of characters, a palate of hues and a landscape as small as a theater and vast as Russia herself.
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