Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2008
Abstract
This examination of amateur theatres from 1957 to 1971 reveals that members of the educated public beyond the cultural elite were engaged in shaping the cultural landscape to suit their own preferences, if not necessarily state priorities. In their efforts to expand social criticism and stylistic innovation, 'amateur publics', consisting of amateurs and their supporters, invoked the term 'civic spirit' (grazhdanstvennost') to explain artistic heterodoxy as a form of loyal criticism of Soviet society. Amateurs also pursued formal and informal mechanisms to improve troupes' material conditions and status in order to secure permanent sites for those critical views.
Publication Title
Slavonic and East European Review
Volume
86
Issue
2
First Page
372
Last Page
394
Recommended Citation
Costanzo, Susan, "Amateur Theatres and Amateur Publics in the Russian Republic, 1958-71" (2008). History Faculty and Staff Publications. 8.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/history_facpubs/8
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Amateur theater--Soviet Union
Geographic Coverage
Soviet Union
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Comments
© 2008, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Costanzo, Susan, "Amateur Theatres and Amateur Publics in the Russian Republic, 1958-71." Slavonic and East European Review, 86.2 (2008): 372-394.