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In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution,
dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors,
dancers, and circus performers as well as a convoy of armored cars
and tanks in The Storming of the Winter Palace. The mass spectacle,
presented in and around the real Winter Palace in Petrograd, was
intended to recall the storming as the beginning of the October
Revolution. But it was a deceptive reenactment because, in
producing the events it sought to reenact, it created a new kind of
theater, agit-drama, promulgating political propaganda and
deliberately breaking down the distinction between performers and
spectators.Nikolaj Evreinov: "The Storming of the Winter Palace"
tells the fascinating story of this production. Taking readers
through the relevant history, the authors describe the role of The
Storming of the Winter Palace in commemorating Soviet power. With a
wealth of illustrations, they also show how photographs of
Evreinov's theatrical storming eventually became historical
documents of the October Revolution themselves.
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