Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. ONE In Search of the New Russian: Gorky‘s Prerevolutionary Plays 1
6. TWO. Gorky's Later Plays: The Soviet Period 29
7. THREE. The Revolt Against Naturalism: Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism, and Theatricalism 50
8. FOUR. The 1920s and Early 1930s: The Revolution and the Civil War in Russian Drama 147
9. FIVE. The 1920s and Early 1930s. Social Comedy, Absurd and Grotesque NEP Satire, Melodrama 182
10. SIX. Out of the Mainstream: Serapions and Oberiuty 222
11. SEVEN. The 1930s: Socialist Construction and Socialist Realism 239
12. EIGHT. The Fantasy World of Yevgeni Shvarts 281
13. NINE. The Gathering Clouds: On the Eve of War 295
14. TEN. The War Years 305
15. ELEVEN. The "Freeze" of 1946 to 1952 318
16. TWELVE. The "Thaw" of 1953 and 1954 333
17. THIRTEEN. From the Twentieth Party Congress to 1959: The "Year of Protest" and Its Aftermath 342
18. FOURTEEN. The New Theatricalism 360
19. FIFTEEN. The Dissidents: Ivanov, Amalrik, Solzhenitsyn 380
20. SIXTEEN. From Dissent to Divertissement: The 1960s and 1970s 407
21. Appendix: Guide to Pronunciation 457
22. Notes 465
23. Bibliography 475
24. Index 491