Attempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the
Bolsheviks staged show trials--legal trials that incorporated
theatrical elements such as coached defendants, memorized scripts
for confession, and grueling interrogatory rehearsals. The genre of
legal spectacle, whose origins lay in Soviet theater and cinema of
the 1920s, moved from mass public spectacles to the courtroom, as
the Bolsheviks sought to effect ever- greater social change.
In this intriguing interdisciplinary study, literature scholar
Cassiday shows how Soviet show trials deliberately used avant-garde
drama and cinema to educate the citizenry about the new social
order. She examines how elements of theater and film were
incorporated into Soviet courtrooms, turning public trials into
vehicles for propaganda. Drawing on a variety of popular media from
the 1920s, she reveals the origins of the show trials.
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