Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia

by Elizabeth Wood

Book Overview

After seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating and bringing culture to the vast and often illiterate mass of Soviet soldiers, workers, and peasants. As part of this campaign, civilian educators and political instructors in the military developed didactic theatrical fictions performed in workers' and soldiers' clubs in the years from 1919 to 1933. The subjects addressed included politics, religion, agronomy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801442575
• ISBN13: 9780801442575
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher