Author: Timothy Langen
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780810113732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russia produced more notable drama in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period of burgeoning creativity have been only sporadically available in English, and others have never been translated before. In Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays, Timothy Langen and Justin Weir introduce American students and general readers to the classics of twentieth-century Russian drama.
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1139828231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.
Author: Harold B. Segal
Publisher:
Published: 1993-11-30
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781555546908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work provides a survey, in English, of Russian drama since Chekhov. Segal discusses every major aspect of Russian dramatic literature in this century, from Gorky's pre-revolutionary plays through popular drama in the age of the New Economic Policy (1921-28) to the regimentation of the Stalinist and Cold War eras. Segal pays special attention to the suppressed works of experimenters, avant-gardists and dissidents that existed alongside the official government-sanctioned drama of Socialist Realism. New to this edition is material on dramatists writing since the period of perestroika and the collapse of communism.
Author: Franklin D. Reeve
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection ranges from humorous social realism to powerful explorations of man's capacity for evil. the anthology offers the reader six important Russian plays of the nineteenth century, in readable modern translations.
Author: Andrew Robert MacAndrew
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0521875358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Author: Joseph Macleod
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0429774753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1946. In this study of Russian theatre, the author explores the developments of drama and the theatre throughout the nineteenth-century. Macleod examines imperial and serf theatres, the impact of Russian drama on the east and west, and the regeneration of theatre at the start of the twentieth-century. This title will be of great interest to students of Theatre Studies and Russian History.
Author: Robert Service
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.