The Chinese working youth theatre in the Soviet Far East (1930's)

The article, based on previously unused documents of the Far Eastern Regional Committee of the Bolshevik Party, deals with the history of the creation and activity of the Chinese Working Youth Theatre (TRAM) in Vladivostok. The article focuses on the collective efforts of the troupe to generate a synthetic model for a new revolutionary theater by combining the elements of traditional Chinese and European theaters with the ideas of socialist realism, and the intervention of party authorities in this creative pursuit. It is concluded that party authorities considered the Chinese TRAM to be nothing more than a tool for the political education of Chinese immigrants.