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Overview: Here have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s. Russian theater of Stanislavsky and Meyerhold, Chekhov, Mayakovsky and Bulgakov, Malevich and Tatlin, Stravinsky and Shostakovich.

From the list of names above, it should be clear that it is precisely theater that is of issue here, not merely drama.

Of course, there were great dramas written and produced in this period, including the major plays of Chekhov, of Mayakovsky, and of Bulgakov. Much more important, however, was the powerful theatrical milieu out of which these plays grew.