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In 1920, the third anniversary of the October Revolution, The Storming of the Winter Palace was performed with a cast of 10,000. But as a reenactment this mass spectacle, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, was deceptive. It was intended to recall something-the storming of the Winter Palace as the beginning of the revolution-that it itself produced as a theatrical medium. This volume reconstructs the event with texts, photographs, and drawings, and shows how not only in the Soviet Union did the photograph of the theatrical "storming" become a historical document of the October Revolution.

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7 - 20 Foreword (Sylvia Sasse)21 - 22 The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) (Nikolai Evreinov)23 - 29 The Storming of the Winter Palace (Nikolai Evreinov)30 - 49 The Storming of the Winter Palace (Nikolai Evreinov)50 - 54 The Storming of the Winter Palace (Nikolai Evreinov)55 - 58 Open-Air Theater (1920) (Konstantin Derzhavin)59 - 60 A Miracle (1920) (Konstantin Derzhavin)61 - 63 The Mass as Such (1920) (Konstantin Derzhavin)64 - 66 The Storming of the Winter Palace (Konstantin Derzhavin)67 - 68 What is required of the Audience during the Production (1920) (Iosif Slepian, Dmitri T‰mkin)69 November Eight 1920 (1920) (Lev Nikulin)70 - 74 Baltic Sea (1932) (Lev Nikulin)75 - 80 On Mass Actions and More Important Things (1932) (Sergei Radlov)81 - 87 Nikolai Evreinov (1960) (Iuri Annenkov)88 - 91 Mass Spectacles (1960) (Nikolai Petrov)93 - 128 Photographs of the 1920 staging in sequence131 Announcement of the Decoration of Petrograd during the Third Anniversary Celebrations of October (1920) (Anonymous)132 - 133 On the October Celebrations (1920) (Vlagin)134 - 135 The Staging of the Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) (Anonymous)136 - 137 An Exhibition in Memory of the Great October (1920) (F. Lenski)138 At a Rehearsal for the Staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) (Anonymous)139 Motion Pictures and the Staging of The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) (Anonymous)140 - 141 The Storming of the Winter Palace (Anonymous)142 Proletarian Action (Anonymous)143 - 147 On Uritski Square (Impression of a Muscovite) (1920) (Nikolai Shubski)148 - 151 The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920) (Anonymous)152 - 158 The Chaos of the Arts (1921) (Arthur Holitscher)159 - 166 The Pageants of 1920 (1922) (Adrian Piotrovski)167 - 176 The Successes of the New Theater (1922) (Platon Kerzhentsev)177 - 196 Theatricalized Life (1926) (René Fülöp-Miller)197 - 211 The Monumentalist Style of the Revolutionary Spectacles (1930) (Nina Gourfinkel)212 - 215 The Theaters and Pageants of Petrograd in the Epoch of War Communism (1933) (Aleksei Gvozdev, Adrian Piotrovski)216 - 222 Cinema and Theater. Nikolai Evreinov (1943) (Sergei Eisenstein)225 - 231 History is Written with the Lens (1971) (Leonid Volkov-Lannit)233 - 253 Photographs of the theatrical storming of the Winter Palace as historical documents257 - 263 Nikolai Evreinov´s "Revolution In Itself" (Igor Chubarov)269 - 279 "History is Written with the Lens": How the Photo of the Theatrical Storming becomes a Historical Document (Sylvia Sasse)281 - 289 Battlefield History: Artistic Reenactments as Participatory Deconstructions of History (Inke Arns)293 - 302 List of figures303 - 315 Glossary317 - 320 Index

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