Abstract
During the Civil War unsophisticated plays on the theme of the Revolution had drawn audiences to theatres all over the country, but the plays themselves were crudely propagandistic and unsuitable for the professional stage. In the post-war years, as the political situation gradually became more stable, the need was felt for a more polished dramatic repertoire about the Revolution and Civil War, one which could be staged by such companies as the Maly and the Moscow Art Theatre. In prose fiction a young generation of talented non-Communist writers, to whom Trotsky had given the name ‘fellow-travellers’, had emerged, but drama was slower to develop, and by the mid-1920s there was still no new repertoire on the theme of the Revolution.
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