Советский театр

Soviet Theatre

Moscow: Teakinopechat, 1930-1933

Soviet Theatre was a socio-political journal on theatre and Marxist theatre studies. The objectives of the magazine were announced with pathos: “To arm the proletarian cult activists for the struggle for a truly Soviet, class theatre, for the socialist reconstruction of the theatre by elaborating the main issues of theatrical culture and class theatre politics, to combat apoliticalism and opportunism in the theatre, with idealistic and mechanical theories, for the dialectical method in the theatre". Soviet Theatre was a controversial publication and did not objectively reflect the theatrical process. The managing editor of the magazine was the playwright A.N. Afinogenov who also was one of the leaders of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). The magazine paid much attention to the activities of the RAPP. However, this activity led to a separation from the political tasks of its time. In April 1932, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a resolution "On the restructuring of literary and artistic organizations", which abolished the RAPP in order to unite Soviet writers and journalists into a single creative group. Clubs and literary communities were closed, theatrical periodicals were also reorganized. This led to the imminent closure of Soviet Theatre in early 1933. The magazine was published in 1930 as a bi-monthly and in 1931 and 1932 as a monthly magazine. In 1933 only two issues (three numbers) were published. The LS Collection holds a complete set of the 30 issues (43 numbers) of this magazine.

Reference:

Viktor Borzenko, Theatre magazines and newspapers from Revolution to War, http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/red_port:

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1933