In June 1920, assessing the international significance of the revolutionary era that had brought him to power in Russia, Vladimir Lenin adopted a theatrical idiom for one of its most important events, the Revolution of 1905. Without the dress rehearsal of 1905, he wrote, the victory of the October Revolution in 1917 would have been impossible. According to Lenin s statement, political anatomy borrowed in a teleological sense from the performing arts.This book explores an inversion of Lenin s statement. Rather than question how politics took after the performing arts, Paul du Quenoy assesses how culture responded to power in late imperial Russia. Exploring the impact of this period s rapid transformation and endemic turmoil on the performing arts, he examines opera, ballet, concerts, and serious drama while not overlooking newer artistic forms thriving at the time, such as popular theater, operetta, cabaret, satirical revues, pleasure garden entertainments, and film. He also analyzes...

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