Daring Voices in Soviet Films

Daring Voices in Soviet Films

In the Winter 1987 Dissent Roy Medvedev singled out the Soviet theater as the artistic medium most quickly responsive to cultural changes. After describing some of the politically daring plays on Moscow’s stages, Medvedev added an appropriate caveat about the limits of “openness” imposed even nowadays.

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