This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and s

A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.

In The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, Gary Thurston illuminates the "popular theater" of pre-revolutionary Russia, which existed alongside the performing a

In the midst of the violent, revolutionary turmoil that accompanied the last decade of tsarist rule in the Russian Empire, many Jews came to reject what they re

Richard Stites explores the dramatic shift in the history of visual and performing arts that took place in the last decades of serfdom in Russia in the 1860s an