(DOWNLOAD) "Stalin's Favorite Dissident (Theater Review)" by Tom Streithorst ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Stalin's Favorite Dissident (Theater Review)
- Author : Tom Streithorst
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
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[The White Guard, directed by Howard Davies, Royal National Theatre, London] BACK IN THE 1930s, after Stalin had finished starving the Ukrainians into submission, was in the midst of slaughtering the kulaks, and was getting ready to murder his own party members, the biggest hit on the Moscow stage was Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Days of the Turbins." It was their "Cats" or, as the head of the Moscow Arts Theatre said at the time, "another 'Seagull' for a new generation." Its appeal to sophisticated Russian theatergoers might have been that it had no tractors, no Stakhanovite workers, no heroic Red Army, none of the tawdry claptrap of typical Soviet propaganda. Instead, its deeply sympathetic heroes were bourgeois intellectuals fighting to restore czarist rule, honest to goodness enemies of the revolution.