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Titre Les « pièces de production » après 1953 : Entre l'humanisme et la cruauté nécessaire
Auteur Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
Numéro volume 27, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1986
Rubrique / Thématique
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Page 315-337
Résumé anglais Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, "Production plays" after 1953: Between humanism and the necessary cruelty. In reaction to the stereotyped phrases conveyed by the plays devoted to production under Stalin, in the 1950's playwrights are interested less in workers than in human beings wronged by the productivist fever of former times. But in the early 1960's, the situation is reversed. Economic difficulties call for a stiffening of discipline in the enterprise. Particularly, the 1965 reform which aims at modernizing production processes implies a change in the style of management. The "production plays" embark upon a second Golden Age, in particular with Dvoretskii, Bokarev, Gel'man who stage pure and tough heroes devoted to the limits of neurosis to the Cause; refusing any compromise they do not endeavor to increase the output but to change the outlooks, to make the workers at all levels more aware of their responsibilities. After several violent attacks of the press against these radical supermen and the reconversion of the main authors to psychological drama, the "production plays" are at present noticeably declining.
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