{"product_id":"travesty-actors-self-and-theater-in-stalinist-culture-hardcover","title":"Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBoris Wolfson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSimon Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Talk 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBORIS WOLFSON \u003c\/b\u003e(1975-2024) was an associate professor of Russian at Amherst College. He coedited the volume \u003ci\u003eRussian Performances: Word, Object, Action\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIMON MORRISON \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor in the Departments of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.13 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336805335289,"sku":"9780810149250","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/wpVv6beH269780810149250.webp?v=1769671257","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/travesty-actors-self-and-theater-in-stalinist-culture-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}