Mayhill C Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1554828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mayhill C Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mayhill C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8246-9096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘I decided to be silent’: Dina Pronicheva, Theatre, and Trauma in Wartime and Post-War Soviet Ukraine
Dina Pronicheva is well known as a survivor of Babyn Yar. Rarely discussed, however, is her work in theatre. She was an actor who trained in Kyiv and worked in puppet theatre before and after the war. During the war, it was her skills as an actor and her network of contacts that helped her survive for over two years, passing as a non-Jew working in Ukrainian theatre. This chapter places Pronicheva in the historiography of Ukrainian theatre and in…
Soviet Ghosts: The Former Theater of the Soviet Army in Lviv and Post-Socialism as a Crisis of Infrastructure
The author argues that one of the central crises of post-socialist culture is that of infrastructure: specifically, the categories of state and public, and how those are understood in relation to funding and managing the arts. War in Donbas has created a situation of scarcity and opportunity, creating small openings for changes in theatrical policy at the government level and changes in management at the local level. The article offers several ex…
Making Lviv Soviet
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Between the lands. From Poland to Russia via Belarus and Ukraine: A journey through cinema, history, literature, memory and music
Between the lands. From Poland to Russia via Belarus and Ukraine: a journey through cinema, history, literature, memory and music." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 61(4), pp. 453–454
What Was Soviet and Ukrainian About Soviet Ukrainian Culture? Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo on the Soviet Stage
In the Soviet Union theatre was an arena for cultural transformation. This article focuses on theatre director Les Kurbas’ 1929 production of playwright Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo , a dark comedy about Ukrainianization, to show the construction of “Soviet Ukrainian” culture. While the Ukrainian and the Soviet are often considered in opposition, this article takes the culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic seriously as a category. We…
Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906–1916, by Ilya Gerasimov
In Ilya Gerasimov’s rich analysis of late Imperial society, the central figure is Ivan Turgenev’s hero Gerasim, the deaf-mute serf who, after drowning his beloved dog Mumu on his mistress’s orders, departs for the city. What urban world, this book asks, did Gerasim discover? How did the many Gerasims throughout the Empire encounter and understand each other, and what was the society they created? While much attention has been paid to peasants, go…
The Geography of Revolutionary Art
This article argues that a focus on Ukraine challenges the general understanding of culture in the revolutionary period, which either focuses on artists working in Moscow making Soviet art, or on non-Russian (Ukrainian, Jewish or Polish) artists in the regions making "national" art. Neither paradigm captures the radical shift in infrastructure during the imperial collapse and civil war. Placing the regions at the center of analysis highlights how…
Introduction: Ukraine in Revolution, 1917-1922
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Olga Bertelsen, compiler, editor, and with an introduction and notes. Les' Kurbas i teatr "Berezil'": Arkhivni dokumenty (1927-1988) [Les' Kurbas and the Berezil' Theatre: Archival Documents (1927-198…
Book review of Olga Bertelsen, compiler, editor, and with an introduction and notes. Les' Kurbas i teatr “Berezil'”: Arkhivni dokumenty (1927-1988) [Les' Kurbas and the Berezil' Theatre: Archival Documents (1927-1988)]. 2016. Arkhiv Rozstrilianoho vidrodzhennia [Archive of the Executed Renaissance], vol. 2, Vydavnytstvo “Smoloskyp,” 2010-16. 2 vols. 504 pp. Illustrations. Appendices. Index of Names. UAH 130,00, cloth
Kyiv as Regime City: The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation, by Martin J. Blackwell
At the centre of Martin J. Blackwell’s micro-study of Kyiv immediately after Nazi occupation is the concept of ‘organisation’. In a city marked by chaos and scarcity, one of the greatest concerns for the Soviet authorities was ‘unorganized return’, that is, soldiers and evacuees returning on their own without pre-authorised housing or jobs. This disorganisation terrified the Soviet authorities; their goal became to organise people as quickly as p…
Jews, Ukrainians, Soviets? Backstage in the Yiddish theatres of Soviet Ukraine
Questions of collaboration and contestation between Yiddish-language and Ukrainian-language theatrical artists often become confused with who was Jewish, who was Ukrainian, and who used which themes in their work. Yet although young artists in 1920s Soviet Ukraine revolutionized theatre in the Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian languages, they often did so in the same spaces, with the same plays, and even the same actors and technical personnel. Mor…
Catherine Gousseff, Échanger les peuples: Le déplacement des minorités aux confins polono‐soviétiques (1944‐1947)
Transfer. Exchange. Expulsion. Evacuation. Repatriation. Migration. Each word describes the movement of peoples variously, suggesting difference in agency (voluntary or involuntary) and direction (whether to or from home). Catherine Gousseff’s magisterial book includes all these multiple ways of leaving and arriving, and shows how such movement was always painful, even behind the front lines of war. About 30 million people moved—through transfer,…
A Cesspool of Intrigue: Les' Kurbas, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, and the Film Industry in 1920s Soviet Ukraine
In the 1920s, theatre innovator Oleksandr “Les'” Kurbas (1887–1937) made three short films for the Vseukrains'ke Foto-Kino Upravlinnia [All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration] or VUFKU. His film career was short-lived, however. Lambasting the VUFKU as a “cesspool of intrigue,” Kurbas left film for good to focus exclusively on theatre. His films never gained wide release, and have since been lost. Kurbas’s brief foray into cinema could therefor…
Catherine Gousseff, Échanger les peuples: Le déplacement des minorités aux confins polono‐soviétiques (1944‐1947)
Transfer. Exchange. Expulsion. Evacuation. Repatriation. Migration. Each word describes the movement of peoples variously, suggesting difference in agency (voluntary or involuntary) and direction (whether to or from home). Catherine Gousseff’s magisterial book includes all these multiple ways of leaving and arriving, and shows how such movement was always painful, even behind the front lines of war. About 30 million people moved—through transfer,…
A Cesspool of Intrigue: Les' Kurbas, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, and the Film Industry in 1920s Soviet Ukraine
In the 1920s, theatre innovator Oleksandr “Les'” Kurbas (1887–1937) made three short films for the Vseukrains'ke Foto-Kino Upravlinnia [All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration] or VUFKU. His film career was short-lived, however. Lambasting the VUFKU as a “cesspool of intrigue,” Kurbas left film for good to focus exclusively on theatre. His films never gained wide release, and have since been lost. Kurbas’s brief foray into cinema could therefor…
Jews, Ukrainians, Soviets? Backstage in the Yiddish theatres of Soviet Ukraine
Questions of collaboration and contestation between Yiddish-language and Ukrainian-language theatrical artists often become confused with who was Jewish, who was Ukrainian, and who used which themes in their work. Yet although young artists in 1920s Soviet Ukraine revolutionized theatre in the Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian languages, they often did so in the same spaces, with the same plays, and even the same actors and technical personnel. Mor…
Catherine Gousseff, Échanger les peuples: Le déplacement des minorités aux confins polono‐soviétiques (1944‐1947)
Transfer. Exchange. Expulsion. Evacuation. Repatriation. Migration. Each word describes the movement of peoples variously, suggesting difference in agency (voluntary or involuntary) and direction (whether to or from home). Catherine Gousseff’s magisterial book includes all these multiple ways of leaving and arriving, and shows how such movement was always painful, even behind the front lines of war. About 30 million people moved—through transfer,…
Olga Bertelsen, compiler, editor, and with an introduction and notes. Les' Kurbas i teatr "Berezil'": Arkhivni dokumenty (1927-1988) [Les' Kurbas and the Berezil' Theatre: Archival Documents (1927-198…
Book review of Olga Bertelsen, compiler, editor, and with an introduction and notes. Les' Kurbas i teatr “Berezil'”: Arkhivni dokumenty (1927-1988) [Les' Kurbas and the Berezil' Theatre: Archival Documents (1927-1988)]. 2016. Arkhiv Rozstrilianoho vidrodzhennia [Archive of the Executed Renaissance], vol. 2, Vydavnytstvo “Smoloskyp,” 2010-16. 2 vols. 504 pp. Illustrations. Appendices. Index of Names. UAH 130,00, cloth
Kyiv as Regime City: The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation, by Martin J. Blackwell
At the centre of Martin J. Blackwell’s micro-study of Kyiv immediately after Nazi occupation is the concept of ‘organisation’. In a city marked by chaos and scarcity, one of the greatest concerns for the Soviet authorities was ‘unorganized return’, that is, soldiers and evacuees returning on their own without pre-authorised housing or jobs. This disorganisation terrified the Soviet authorities; their goal became to organise people as quickly as p…
Between the lands. From Poland to Russia via Belarus and Ukraine: A journey through cinema, history, literature, memory and music
Between the lands. From Poland to Russia via Belarus and Ukraine: a journey through cinema, history, literature, memory and music." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 61(4), pp. 453–454
What Was Soviet and Ukrainian About Soviet Ukrainian Culture? Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo on the Soviet Stage
In the Soviet Union theatre was an arena for cultural transformation. This article focuses on theatre director Les Kurbas’ 1929 production of playwright Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo , a dark comedy about Ukrainianization, to show the construction of “Soviet Ukrainian” culture. While the Ukrainian and the Soviet are often considered in opposition, this article takes the culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic seriously as a category. We…
Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906–1916, by Ilya Gerasimov
In Ilya Gerasimov’s rich analysis of late Imperial society, the central figure is Ivan Turgenev’s hero Gerasim, the deaf-mute serf who, after drowning his beloved dog Mumu on his mistress’s orders, departs for the city. What urban world, this book asks, did Gerasim discover? How did the many Gerasims throughout the Empire encounter and understand each other, and what was the society they created? While much attention has been paid to peasants, go…
The Geography of Revolutionary Art
This article argues that a focus on Ukraine challenges the general understanding of culture in the revolutionary period, which either focuses on artists working in Moscow making Soviet art, or on non-Russian (Ukrainian, Jewish or Polish) artists in the regions making "national" art. Neither paradigm captures the radical shift in infrastructure during the imperial collapse and civil war. Placing the regions at the center of analysis highlights how…
Introduction: Ukraine in Revolution, 1917-1922
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making Lviv Soviet
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Soviet Ghosts: The Former Theater of the Soviet Army in Lviv and Post-Socialism as a Crisis of Infrastructure
The author argues that one of the central crises of post-socialist culture is that of infrastructure: specifically, the categories of state and public, and how those are understood in relation to funding and managing the arts. War in Donbas has created a situation of scarcity and opportunity, creating small openings for changes in theatrical policy at the government level and changes in management at the local level. The article offers several ex…
‘I decided to be silent’: Dina Pronicheva, Theatre, and Trauma in Wartime and Post-War Soviet Ukraine
Dina Pronicheva is well known as a survivor of Babyn Yar. Rarely discussed, however, is her work in theatre. She was an actor who trained in Kyiv and worked in puppet theatre before and after the war. During the war, it was her skills as an actor and her network of contacts that helped her survive for over two years, passing as a non-Jew working in Ukrainian theatre. This chapter places Pronicheva in the historiography of Ukrainian theatre and in…
Political science (9 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (8 works) · History (8 works) · Soviet and Russian History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ukrainian (5 works) · Economic history (4 works)