Structure and Features of Shapimg Vitebsk Theatrical Business in the Post-Revolutionary Period (1918-1926)
The article centers round features of shaping state theatrical institutions of the City of Vitebsk in the post-revolutionary period; impact of external factors of development: management of theater business and cencorship policy; finding out basic tendencies of repertoir in theater art. The period of post-revolutionary development is a strip of time which started with initial and real freedom, which was obtained, first of all, with February Revolution, and gradually reached the necessity of planned organization and centralization. Already in the late XIX century professional tour companies arrive in Vitebsk, there are also local theater companies. However, it is in the post-revolutionary time that a wide theatrical structure is really shaped. This is due to political and social events; thanks to it the theater becomes ideological conductor of social ideas. It is a manipulation means of masses.