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050 00 $aPN3305$b.M35 2008
100 1 $aMally, Lynn.
245 14 $aThe Americanization of the Soviet living newspaper /$cLynn Mally.
260 $aPittsburgh, PA :$bCenter for Russian and East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh,$c2008.
300 $a40 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aCarl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies,$x0889-275X ;$vno. 1903
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 30-40)
520 3 $aThis article examines the migration of a Soviet agitational theatrical form from Russia to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The Soviet living newspaper, or zhivaia gazeta began during the Russian Civil War as a method to act out a pro-Soviet version of the news for mainly illiterate Red Army soldiers. During the 1920s, it evolved into an experimental form of agitprop theater that attracted the interest of foreigners, who hoped to develop new methods of political theater in their own countries. In the United States, the living newspaper format was first adopted by American communist circles. Eventually, the depression-era arts program, the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), incorporated an expanded and altered version as part of its many offerings. Living newspapers eventually became one of the FTP's most celebrated and criticized performance genres. The political content of American living newspapers was a major factor in the government's elimination of the FTP in 1939.
650 0 $aLiving newspaper.
650 0 $aAgitprop theater$zUnited States.
610 20 $aFederal Theatre Project (U.S.)
650 0 $aTheater$zUnited States$xSoviet influences.
650 0 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTheater and state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTheater$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century.