Revolutionary Acts Quotes

“Only Tarzan managed to escape judgment, since he escaped from the courtroom during a brawl.”
― Lynn Mally, Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938

“Isaac Babel’s controversial collection of stories, Red Cavalry, was put on trial in a Moscow club in 1926. Although the speeches against the book were passionate, Babel himself made an appearance to argue in his defense. The assembled crowd not only acquitted Babel, but also judged his work to be a real service to the revolution.61”
― Lynn Mally, Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938