Theatre Academique d’Art M. Gorky.

Rare Maxim Gorky Russian Theater Showcase Book 1937 Paris Exposition Moscow Stalin Lenin USSR. 148 pages, tight binding, great condition. Some wear to spine, otherwise fine.

Pavel Markov, author / editor.

Wonderfully illustrated with prints, photos, plates and diagrams, including layouts of the theater. Focus is on Maxim Gorky and other performers, dancers, producers and choreographers, as well as individual performances and plays. Olga Knipper etc. Anna Karenina focus of special color plates.

Many references to Stalin, Lenin, the USSR, theater culture, and all aspects of Theatre Moscou. Interesting Russian propaganda piece as well as a true showcase of Soviet talent and public relations tactics. Appears to be partially created in Leningrad but published in Paris.

From 1933 through 1937, the Soviet Union invited foreigners to experience the best of Soviet theater at the Moscow Theater Festival. This festival was both an object of and vehicle for socialist construction. It fused the concepts of politics, economics, and culture into the singular concept of socialism.