More Dangerous Than Many a Pamphlet or Propaganda Book
The Ukrainian Canadian Left, Theatre, and Propaganda in the 1920s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kassandra Luciuk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-103 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | Athabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.1353/llt.2019.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2944435066 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
For Ukrainian Canadian leftists, the 1920s represented a golden age of domestic cultural production. The strict hierarchy that constituted the communist movement in the 1930s was not yet extant, and the realm of possibilities was limited only by the imagination of the organization itself. The material produced in this period was neither crass agitprop nor cheap melodrama. Rather, it was bottom-up expressions of proletarian high culture and organic reflections of the social, economic, and political realities that constituted the experiences of Ukrainian progressives in Canada. As such, in the 1920s, the theatre served as the movement's most effective vehicle for political propaganda and ethnocultural instruction. Pour les gauchistes ukrainiens canadiens, les années 1920 représentaient l'âge d'or de la production culturelle nationale. La stricte hiérarchie qui constituait le mouvement communiste dans les années 1930 n'était pas encore existante et le domaine des possibilités n'était limité que par l'imagination de l'organisation elle-même. Le matériel produit à cette époque n'était ni grossier agitprop ni bon mélodrame. Il s'agissait plutôt d'expressions ascendantes de la haute culture prolétarienne et de réflexions organiques sur les réalités sociales, économiques et politiques qui constituaient les expériences des progressistes ukrainiens au Canada. En tant que tel, dans les années 1920, le théâtre constituait le moyen le plus efficace du mouvement pour la propagande politique et l'instruction ethnoculturelle
Art · Art history · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Ukrainian · Canadian Identity and History · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War
State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914–20
Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians
Comrades and Critics
Riding to the Rescue
Theatre and revolution in 1917
Canada's Ukrainians
Slavic Drama
Whence They Came
The Rehabilitation of Mykola Skrypnyk
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism
Drama Was a Weapon, The Left-Wing Theatre in New York, 1929-1941
| Highly cited | No |
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