Vestnik Teatra was the journal of the Theatre Department of Narkompros, founded in Moscow in 1918. It became an influential journal amongst theatrical practitioners during the period following the Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 seizure of power. It published articles by such people as Platon Kerzhentsev

Platon Kerzhentsev

Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev , real name Lebedev was a Russian state and party official, journalist, playwright and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletcult movement...

 and Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold was a great Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer. His provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern international theatre.-Early...

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Some Articles

No. 1 (1919):

'Mozhno li iskazhat' p'esy postanovkoi?' (p. 2), Platon Kerzhentsev

No. 19 (1919):

'Rozn' iskusstva' (p. 2), Platon Kerzhentsev

No. 36 (1919):

'Peredelyvaite p'esy! (pp. 6–8), Platon Kerzhentsev

No. 48 (1920):

'Teatral'nyi muzei' (pp. 4–5), Platon Kerzhentsev

No. 51 (1920):

'Burzhuaznoe nasledie' (pp. 2–3), Platon Kerzhentsev

No. 53 (1920):

'Pis'mo v redaktsiiu' (p. 5), Platon Kerzhentsev