Nikolaj Evreinov & others "The storming of the Winter Palace":

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Arns, Inke 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Čubarov, Igorʹ 1965- (HerausgeberIn), Sasse, Sylvia 1968- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Zürich Diaphanes [2016]
Ausgabe:1st edition
Schriftenreihe:Think art
Zusammenfassung: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and drawings, and shows how not only in the Soviet Union did the photograph of the theatrical "storming" became a historical document of the October Revolution
Beschreibung:320 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9783037349915