{"product_id":"travesty-actors-self-and-theater-in-stalinist-culture-paperback-softback-9780810149243","title":"Travesty Actors; Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810149243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTravesty Actors\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelf and Theater in Stalinist Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBoris Wolfson (Author), Simon Morrison (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810149243, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 12 b\u0026amp;w halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Boris Wolfson was the expert on the Stalinist theater. This stunning, engrossing book - the only English-language book on the Stalinist theater - offers a vivid, dramatic and intellectually provocative narrative of very brave playwrights creating theater in a time of absolute terror. Based on extensive primary research, this book adds so much to our understanding of the living details of those dark Soviet 1930s, and it presses us to think deeply about art under dictatorship, a topic relevant even to our present day.\" - Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalk of Joseph Stalin's 'show trials,' the public prosecutions in Moscow's Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to obscure the relationship between actual shows - in the Soviet Union's major theaters - and politics. \u003ci\u003eTravesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture\u003c\/i\u003e examines theatrical performance within the context of the Soviet cultural establishment's fashioning of a 'genuine Soviet person.' Boris Wolfson focuses on prominent and controversial plays by artists including Aleksandr Afinogenov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha, and Natalia Sats and the efforts of theater companies, like the Moscow Arts Theater, the Meyerhold Theater, and the Central Children's Theater, to adhere to this cultural mandate while grappling with repression, censorship, and conflicting interpretations of its aims. Drawing on archival materials, diaries and memoirs and eyewitness accounts, Wolfson greatly illuminates the achievements of Soviet theater during this harsh period and the cultural significance of artistic theories and practices for articulating and enacting ideological programs.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrefatory Note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Travesties for Stalin'\u003cbr\u003es Children\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Yuri Olesha'\u003cbr\u003es Theatrical Experiment\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: New Soviet Drama: Performing (for) Stalin\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Aleksandr Afinogenov'\u003cbr\u003es Acceptable Ambiguities\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Remarkable Lives of Soviet Stage Deaths\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Mikhail Bulgakov'\u003cbr\u003es Theatrical Everyday\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555668193560,"sku":"9780810149243","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/travesty-actors-self-and-theater-in-stalinist-culture-paperback-softback-9780810149243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}