Nikolai Evreinov & others : "the Storming of the Winter Palace" / edited by Inke Arns, Igor Chubarov, and Sylvia Sasse ; translated by Bernard Heise, David Riff, and Jordan Lee Schnee ; with the editorial assistance of Andri Hürlemann.
Foreword -- Protagonists. The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Nikolai Evreinov -- The Storming of the Winter Palace : an article by the production's director-in-chief (1920) / Nikolai Evreinov -- The Storming of the Winter Palace : recollections of the staging to celebrate the third anniversary of the October Revolution (unpublished typescript, 1924) / Nikolai Evreinov -- The Storming of the Winter Palace : recollections of the staging to celebrate the third anniversary of the October Revolution (1924) / Nikolai Evreinov -- Open-air theater (1920) / Konstantin Derzhavin -- A miracle (1920) / Konstantin Derzhavin -- The mass as such (1920) / Konstantin Derzhavin -- The Storming of the Winter Palace : on the fifth anniversary of the staging (1925) / Konstantin Derzhavin -- What is required of the audience during the production (1920) / Dmitri Tëmkin, Iosif Slepian -- November eight 1920 (1920) / Lev Nikulin -- Baltic Sea (1932) / Lev Nikulin -- On mass actions and more important things (1923) / Sergei Radlov -- Nikolai Evreinov (1960) / Iuri Annenkov -- Mass spectacles (1960) / Nikolai Petrov -- Photographs of the 1920 staging in sequence -- Contemporary witnesses. Announcement on the Decoration of Petrograd during the third anniversary celebrations of October (1920) / Anon. -- On the October celebrations (1920) / Vlagin -- The staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Anon. -- An exhibition in memory of the Great October (1920) / F. Lenski -- At a rehearsal for the staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Anon. -- Motion pictures and the staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Anon. -- The Storming of the Winter Palace : an eye-witness report (1920) / Anon. -- Proletarian action : at the staging The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Anon. -- On Uritski Square (impression of a Muscovite) (1920) / Nikolai Shubski -- The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) / Anon. -- The chaos of the arts (1921) / Arthur Holitscher -- The pageants of 1920 (1922) / Adrian Piotrovski -- The successes of the new theater (1922) / Platon Kerzhentsev -- Theatricalized life (1926) / René Fülöp-Miller -- The monumentalist style of the Revolutionary spectacles (1930) / Nina Gourfinkel -- The theaters and pageants of Petrograd in the epoch of war Communism (1933) / Aleksei Gvozdev, Adrian Piotrovski -- Cinema and theater : Nikolai Evreinov (1943) / Sergei Einstein -- Historical photographic "documents". History is written with the lens (1971) / Leonid Volkov-Lannit -- Photographs of the theatrical Storming of the Winter Palace as historical documents -- Essays. Nikolai Evreinov's "Revolution in itself" / Igor Chubarov -- "History is written with the lens" : how the photo of the theatrical Storming becomes a historical document / Sylvia Sasse -- Battlefield history : artistic reenactments as participatory deconstructions of history / Inke Arns -- Appendix. List of figures -- Glossary : persons, places, terms, abbreviations -- Index.
Summary:
"In 1920, the third anniversary of the October Revolution, The Storming of the Winter Palace was performed with a cast of 10,000. The mass spectacle, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, was a kind of false, deceptive reenactment. It was intended to recall something--the storming of the Winter Palace as the beginning of the revolution--that it itself produced as a theatrical medium. This volume reconstructs the event with texts, photographs, and drawings, and shows how not only in the Soviet Union did the photograph of the theatrical "storming" became a historical document of the October Revolution."--Page 4 of cover.
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