scholarly journals The Americanization of the Soviet Living Newspaper

2008 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Lynn Mally
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Theater ◽  
Federal Theatre Project ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Federal Theatre ◽  
Depression Era ◽  
Living Newspapers

This article examines the migration of a Soviet agitational theatrical form from Russia to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The Soviet living newspaper, or zhivaia gazeta, began during the Russian Civil War as a method to act out a pro-Soviet version of the news for mainly illiterate Red Army soldiers. During the 1920s, it evolved into an experimental form of agitprop theater that attracted the interest of foreigners, who hoped to develop new methods of political theater in their own countries. In the United States, the living newspaper format was first adopted by American communist circles. Eventually, the depression-era arts program, the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), incorporated an expanded and altered version as part of its many offerings. Living newspapers eventually became one of the FTP’s most celebrated and criticized performance genres. The political content of American living newspapers was a major factor in the government’s elimination of the FTP in 1939.

Federal Theatre Project (1935–9)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry B. Witham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Federal Theatre Project ◽  
Children's Theater ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
House Committee ◽  
Federal Theatre

The Federal Theatre Project was a government-subsidized program established in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs for theater artists during the Great Depression in the United States. Along with similar programs in art, music, dance, and writing, the project was designed to produce professional theater throughout the country and eventually established companies in thirty-one American states. While the fare of the program was broad, including circuses, vaudeville, musicals, and children’s theater, its offerings were largely progressive, which led to conflicts with Congressional Republicans who viewed the program as propaganda for New Deal politics. Eventually, charges of communism led to an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the budgetary elimination of Federal Theatre in 1939.

Col. Philip R. Faymonville and the Red Army, 1934-43

Slavic Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Herndon ◽  
Joseph O. Baylen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
American Military ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Red Army

Prior to the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1933, American military intelligence on the Red Army was limited to what it could glean from foreign military sources and travelers who had observed the Red Army inside the Soviet state. Thus, from 1920, the end of the period of Russian Civil War and Allied Intervention, to 1933, information on the Soviet military establishment was gathered by American military attachés from European diplomatic and military officials in Riga, Berlin, and Warsaw. To a lesser extent, intelligence on the Red Army was also available in London, Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Peking. American military intelligence dispatches and reports during the period reflected the heavy reliance upon secondary and indirect sources, although the information was often remarkably accurate. But with the American diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union and the opening of an American embassy in Moscow, American military intelligence gained the opportunity to supplement information received from foreign military sources with data received directly from the American military attaché.

scholarly journals Challenges in evaluating the use of viral sequence data to identify HIV transmission networks for public health

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rami Kantor ◽  
John P. Fulton ◽  
Jon Steingrimsson ◽  
Vladimir Novitsky ◽  
Mark Howison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Viral Sequence ◽  
Transmission Networks ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
The World

AbstractGreat efforts are devoted to end the HIV epidemic as it continues to have profound public health consequences in the United States and throughout the world, and new interventions and strategies are continuously needed. The use of HIV sequence data to infer transmission networks holds much promise to direct public heath interventions where they are most needed. As these new methods are being implemented, evaluating their benefits is essential. In this paper, we recognize challenges associated with such evaluation, and make the case that overcoming these challenges is key to the use of HIV sequence data in routine public health actions to disrupt HIV transmission networks.

‘Injunction Granted’ in Its Times: a Living Newspaper Reappraised

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 279-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerry Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Federal Theatre Project ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Theatrical Practice ◽  
Federal Theatre ◽  
The University ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Living Newspapers

Back in the early 1970s, the original Theatre Quarterly published a number of articles which revived interest in the Federal Theatre Project. In TQ 4, Heinz Bernard placed the work of the FTP's Living Newspaper Unit in the context of American left-wing theatrical practice in the 1930s, and a piece on its techniques by Arthur Arent, the principal writer of the Living Newspapers, first published in 1938, was reprinted in the same issue. Then, in TQ 9 (1973), came Arnold Goldman's incisive and far-ranging article, ‘Life and Death of the Living Newspaper Unit’, which not only traced the political rise and fall of the Unit and the Project, but suggested the importance of the Living Newspaper form to American political theatre, and identified important formal links with Soviet and German practices. This marked the beginning of a reassessment of the work of the Unit, whose reputation had been tarnished and somewhat marginalized in the wake of the FTP's closure by Congress on the grounds of political extremism, and the subsequent legacy of the McCarthy years. The present article by Gerry Cobb continues the reassessment process, and deals with the Living Newspaper considered most contentious of all both by Congressional opponents of the Project and by its own hierarchy – Injunction Granted. Cobb argues that this piece was singled out for attack because of its divergence from the policies of the New Deal, and its call for the organization of workers under the auspices of the CIO, its politics thus coming to obscure its theatrical strengths. His article both demonstrates the historical relevance of Injunction Granted at the time of its creation, and emphasizes and reassesses its strengths as a piece of theatre. Gerry Cobb is a postgraduate student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where, in addition to working on a doctoral thesis on the Living Newspapers, he is editing a volume of the four major works in the form, including Injunction Granted, for publication by Bristol Classical Press late in 1990.

'A Very Quiet, Outspoken, Pleasant Gentleman [sic]': The United States Military Attaché's Reports on Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, March 1921

Inner Asia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-377
Author(s):  
James Boyd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Almost All

AbstractIn works dealing with modern Mongolia, the 'Mad' or 'Bloody' Baron UngernSternberg is always mentioned and, more often than not, the picture that is painted of him is a man driven by demons, someone who committed unspeakable atrocities against almost all he encountered. This article does not dispute that Ungern-Sternberg committed atrocities during the Russian civil War, but draws on contemporary english-language sources that suggest that the portrayal of the baron as a 'monster' is open to doubt.

DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL WARFARE*

1953 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
Richard S. Green
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Biological Warfare ◽  
New Methods

Biological warfare, “Public Health in Reverse,” calls for new methods of fighting disease, because when disease is willfully spread, it can take on new aspects. By understanding why an enemy may choose to use BW instead of some other weapon, we may be able to forecast its use and prepare to repel it. Various BW agents, means of distribution, and required properties are discussed. Although counteracting forces now exist in the health services of the United States, we must fashion and learn to use special defensive weapons. The author outlines four essential elements in a program of defense against BW.

Founders of Seismology.—III. John Milne

1921 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Davison
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Small Band

During the period of about ten years which included that of Mallet's death—say, five years before and five after—the study of earthquakes made rapid progress. Among the more prominent contributors were M. S. de Rossi and G. Mercalli in Italy, F. A. Forel and A. Heim in Switzerland, E. Suess in Austria, J. F. J. Schmidt in Greece, T. Oldham in India, and C. G. Rockwood and C. E. Dutton in the United States. Their work, however, was mainly carried out on the old lines. For the introduction of new methods of study and of a new spirit infused into seismology, we are indebted to the small band of early British teachers in Japan, to J. A. Ewing, T. Gray, and, above all, to J. Milne. In the new epoch, now opening, when seismology demanded the whole energy of its supporters as well as their active co-operation, it is not, I think, too much to claim that Milne lifted the science to an altogether different and higher plane.

Pointing to the Future

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Lorraine A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Federal Theatre Project ◽  
American Theater ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Theater ◽  
The Status ◽  
Federal Theatre ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Considerable Body

As many historians of American theater and culture know, the Fenwick Library of George Mason University (GMU) became the home in 1974 to a major collection of Federal Theatre Project (FTP) materials. As many researchers also know, some FTP material was removed from GMU to the Library of Congress in the fall of 1994. In this essay, I will bring Theatre Survey's readers up to date on the status of the FTP collection, which, because of its continuing development over two decades, houses not only a considerable body of FTP material but also early records of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). ANTA in its earliest days was a worthy successor to the FTP in the drive to have a national theater in the United States. Since 1980, all of these holdings have been an integral part of the Center for Government, Society and the Arts (CGSA) at GMU. CGSA has been the site of many activities exploring the relationship between our government and the arts, ranging from conferences on theater and cultural studies to our own theatrical productions of FTP materials, some of which I will outline here.

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