The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman: 1 (Russian Theatre Archive) - Softcover

"'Nikolai Erdman is best known in the West for his second full-length play, The Suicide, called 'a work of genius' by Konstantin Stanislavsky and 'empty and even harmful' by the self-proclaimed dilettante in theatrical matters, Joseph Stalin. As is well known now, it was the latter opinion which dictated that The Suicide, written in the late 1920s, would gather dust in archives and personal libraries for 40 years before it could be performed.'." -John Freedman of Introduction to "The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.