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Abstract: From 1933 through 1937, the Soviet Union invited foreigners to experience the best of Soviet theater at the Moscow Theater Festival. This thesis focuses on the festival as both an object of and vehicle for socialist construction. The first chapter explores the event as an economic activity through a consideration of the capitalist methods employed to sell the festival. The second chapter... read moreexamines how the organizers focused on the festival's increasing cultural and political significance when planning it. The final chapter reflects on the attendees' responses to their experiences. The conclusion compares the festival to another project of socialist construction--the building of the Moscow subway--and to the Nazi Olympics of 1936. It suggests that a constant and critical aspect of socialist construction is the fusing of the concepts of politics, economics, and culture into the singular concept of socialism.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of Drama.
Advisor: Laurence Senelick.
Committee: Justin Weir, and Noe Montez.
Keywords: Theater history, Russian history, and Recreation and tourism.read less
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