Mayakovski and the Beginnings of the Soviet Theatre
Mayakovski and the Beginnings of the Soviet Theatre

Summary/Abstract: Admitting the cultural amalgam of theater, politics, and history, my examination of the early Soviet theatre focuses on a detailed consideration of Vladimir Mayakovski’s theatre and its close relationship to politics. Determining Mayakovski’s theatrical engagement, the 1910-1920 decade merged art and politics in dramatic forms, which drew their inspiration from Gogol’s classical plays while struggling against the “bourgeois” art with revolutionary fervor. As they secured the social and political prominence of theatrical productions in the new Soviet Union, the flamboyant Vladimir Mayakovski and the formidable director Vsevolod Meyerhod equated the country’s socio-political revolution with revolution in art and the theater.

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