by Senelick, Laurence & Sergei Ostrovsky, eds.

The first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language, this volume offers a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years' worth of archival documentation, it celebrates in words and pictures a vital art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite the harsh pressures inflicted by a totalitarian government.