Wilson Center Experts
Julie Anne Cassiday
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Russian, Williams College
Wilson Center Project(s):
The Enemy of Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen
Project Summary
the mock trials, the decline of the theatrical avant-garde, and the rise of the show trial in the 1920s to illuminate the cultural forces that led to Stalins Great Terror of 1936-1938 theatre, cinema