Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia : Primary Sources (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Translation Credits and a Note on Transliteration List of Figures Introduction Prologue, 1918 Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Revoliutsiia i teatr, pp. 5-12 Part 1 Aims and Objectives 1. 'The Proletariat and Art', 1918 Anatoly Lunacharsky Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 2, pp. 23-24 2. 'The Proletariat and Art', 1918 Resolutions proposed at the First All-Russian Conference of Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organizations Alexander Bogdanov Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 5, page unidentified 3. 'The Proletkult and Soviet Cultural Work', 1919 Anatoly Lunacharsky Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 7-8, pp. 1-3 4. 'Ways Towards a Proletarian Culture', 1920 Alexander Bogdanov Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 15-16 5. 'The Proletkult - Organisation of Proletarian Amateur Performance', 1918 Platon Kerzhentsev Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 1, pp. 7-8 6. 'Craving the Stage', 1919 Nikolai Lvov Vestnik teatra, 56, p. 8 7. 'Socialist Theatre in the Years of the Revolution', 1919 Piotr Kogan Vestnik teatra, 40, pp. 3-4 8. 'No to Theatre Art, but to Celebration', 1921 Adrian Piotrovsky Zhizn' iskusstva, 19-22 March, 1921, page unidentified 9. 'Drama and Mass Performances', 1921 Viktor Shklovsky Zhizn' iskusstva, 9-11 March, 1921, page unidentified Part 2 Amateur-Professional Relations 10. 'On the Professionalization of the Workers in the Arts', 1919 Fyodor Kalinin Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 7-8, pp. 29-31 11. 'On Professionalism', 1919 Valerian Pletnev Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 7-8, pp. 31-37 12. The Creation of the Proletarian Theatre, 1923 Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr, pp. 75-88 Part 3 Repertoire Issues 13. Repertoire at a Factory Theatre, [1918] Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2, pp. 302-06 14. 'The Repertoire of the Proletarian Theatre', 1918 Platon Kerzhentsev Iskusstvo, no. 1 (5), pp. 5-7 15. Notes on Pavel Bessalko's The Bricklayer, [1918] Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2, pp. 420-33 16. 'Adapt the Plays!', 1919 Platon Kerzhentsev Vestnik teatra, no. 36, pp. 6-8 17. Garland's Inheritance, 1923 Valerian Pletnev An extract from the play, Act 1, pp. 5-17 18. They Tried to Hide, but Ended Up Fathers, 1924 Arkhip Rabochii klub, no. 5, pp. 34-37 Part 4 Production Approaches and Examples 19. 'After the Holiday', 1918 Platon Kerzhentsev Iskusstvo, no. 6, pp. 3-5 20. Performances During the Civil War, [1919] Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2, pp. 365-71 21. Collective Readings, [1918-19] Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2 22. 'Collective Creation in the Theatre', 1919 Platon Kerzhentsev Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 7-8, pp. 37-41. 23. 'Strife Between the Arts', 1919 Platon Kerzhentsev Vestnik teatra, no. 19, p. 2. 24. 'On Futurism', 1919 Fyodor Kalinin Proletarskaia kul'tura,no. 7-8, pp. 41-3 25. 'Creative Play. The Improvisation Method of N. Skarskaia', 1919 Pavel Gaideburov VO, no. 6-8, pp. 36-40 26. 'Experiment in the Staging of Emile Verhaeren's Poem Insurrection', 1919 Valentin Smyshlaev Gorn, no. 2-3, pp. 82-90 27. The Results of the New Theatre, 1923 Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr, pp. 123-36 28. The Proletarian Actor, 1922 Valentin Tikhonovich An extract from the essay 'Proletarian Theatre', originally published in O Teatre, a book edited by V. Blum, E. Beskin, B. Ferdinand, A. Gan, I. Aksenov, V. Tikhonovich, M. Zagorsky, B. Arvatov, O. Blum, V. Rappaport, L. Sabaneyev, O Teatre, pp. 89-96 29. 'The Dramatisation of a Living Newspaper', 1924 Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube, pp. 66-71 30. 'On Staging Agit-Trials', 1924 Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube, pp. 96-99 31. 'Club Stage - Competition of Living Newspapers', 1927 N.N.V Rabochii i teatr, no. 15, pp. 16-17 Part 5 Training 32. 'On the Work of the Theatre Department of the Moscow Proletkult', 1918 Valentin Smyshlaev Gorn, no. 1, p. 54 33. Dramatic Laboratories, 1923 Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr, pp. 88-94 34. 'A Unified Studio of the Arts', 1924 Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube, pp. 9-16 35. 'On Theatre Work at the Clubs', 1924 Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube, pp. 17-24 Epilogue Sections from N. Evreinov's intervention during the conference on theatre organised by the Agitprop Division of the Communist Party, 1927