ABSTRACT
We are sorry, but this is the same Manilovism that Comrade N. calls the effort to divert the work of village drama circles on to the rails of amateur work on the principle of a United Artistic Circle! It is the same Manilovism that Tribuna iskusstva falls for when it suggests that the present rural theatre might serve as a medium for the political development of the mass of the peasantry, acquainting them with our country's past, inducing them to cultivate their own fodder, to mechanise their farming, to re-establish their cooperatives, etc.
