Teatro de masas en la Rusia posrevolucionaria: la proto-performance en los contextos urbanos y su influencia en la construcción de las identidades colectivas

Abstract

After the October Revolution, Russian society faced the enormous challenge of building a socialist culture in a country with deep-rooted religious and monarchical traditions and a devastated economy. To reach this new cultural horizon and thus cement the political transformations, it was necessary to influence the construction of collective identities - bearers of renewed citizen awareness. In this article we will delve into the way in which mass theatre contributed to achieving this objective not only due to its nature as a rite linked to the heritage of the Orthodox Church, but also through new formulas of inhabiting and interacting with space public. Both the transformation of the meaning conferred on the place and the establishment of a renewed bond between the public and the space was emphasized through symbolic identification and collective action-transformation.