Volume 29, Number 12 · July 15, 1982
The Return of Meyerhold
By John Russell
Meyerhold the Director
by Konstantin Rudnitsky, translated by George Petrov, edited by Sydney Schultze
Ardis, 565 pp., $75.00
Meyerhold at Work
edited by Paul Schmidt, translated by Paul Schmidt, by Ilya Levin, by Vern McGee
University of Texas Press, 241 pp., $19.95
To those who, like myself, were in and out of many Soviet theaters in the late 1950s and early 1960s, nothing could have seemed less likely than that as early as 1969 there would appear a monumental book on Vsevolod Meyerhold, drawn entirely from Soviet sources and written by a distinguished Soviet historian of the theater. It was taken for granted at that time that Meyerhold was a martyr, as he had once been the hero, of Soviet theater, and that his name had been struck from the record forever.
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