Twentieth-century Russian drama Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	In Search of the New Russian: Gorky's Prerevolutionary Plays	1
2	Gorky's Later Plays: The Soviet Period	29
3	The Revolt Against Naturalism: Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism, and Theatricalism	50
4	The 1920s and Early 1930s: The Revolution and the Civil War in Russian Drama	147
5	The 1920s and Early 1930s: Social Comedy, Absurd and Grotesque NEP Satire, Melodrama	182
6	Out of the Mainstream: Serapions and Oberiuty	222
7	The 1930s: Socialist Construction and Socialist Realism	239
8	The Fantasy World of Yevgeni Shvarts	281
9	The Gathering Clouds: On the Eve of War	295
10	The War Years	305
11	The "Freeze" of 1946 to 1952	318
12	The "Thaw" of 1953 and 1954	333
13	From the Twentieth Party Congress to 1959: The "Year of Protest" and Its Aftermath	342
14	The New Theatricalism	360
15	The Dissidents: Ivanov, Amalrik, Solzhenitsyn	380
16	From Dissent to Divertissement: The 1960s and 1970s	407
17	From Divertissement to Dissolution: The Late 1970s to the Collapse of the Soviet Union	457
	Appendix: Twentieth-Century Russian Drama in English Translation	485
	Notes	495
	Bibliography	507
	Index	515