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List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Russian theatre in world theatre Robert Leach Russian theatre in Russian culture Victor Borovsky 1. The origins of the Russian theatre Catriona Kelly 2. The organisation of the Russian theatre, 1645-1763 Victor Borovsky 3. The emergence of the Russian theatre, 1763-1800 Victor Borovsky 4. Writers and repertoires, 1800-1850 A. D. P. Briggs 5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller 6. Popular, provincial and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly 7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh 8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Kate Sealey Rahman 9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson 10. Russian opera John Warrack 11. Imperial and private theatres, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky 12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898-1938 Jean Benedetti 13. The Silver Age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub 14. Revolutionary theatre, 1917-1930 Robert Leach 15. The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953 Inna Solovyova 16. The 'thaw' and after, 1953-1986 Birgit Beumers 17. Russian theatre in the post-communist era Anatoly Smeliansky 18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach Select bibliography Index.

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