ABSTRACT
The Soviet people in uniform and the Soviet peoples in overalls were one and the same. Whether breaking records and out-achieving plans and schedules of production in factories by skill and endurance, or winning more and yet more food materials in the fields by a skill as great and an endurance even greater, people in the rear were undergoing fully the same degree of nerve strain and physical hardship as those at the front. Performances may take place anywhere—in club-halls, local theatre buildings, yards, or even during rest hours in the very fields. Big distances must be covered by such brigades; and not every rural group can have an evening show. Sub-national dramatists like Isanbet and Gizzat were welcomed. In summer the whole theatre became a field-brigade, touring the farms and thereby handing on, in the mutual competitive spirit of all Soviet theatre enterprise, the increased ability engendered by Russian example.
