Drawing extensively from unexplored archival documents from France, Austria, and North America, April in Paris is the first major study to focus on theatre arts at the 1925 Paris Expo and on the audacious and far-reaching impact of the Soviet contributions to this fair.

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Introduction. April in Paris 1925: "as important as the Renaissance"

1 Theatricalizing the City: Space, Modernism, and the Paris Expo

2 April in Paris 1925: Staging the New Spirit

3 Conquering Space: The Soviets in Paris

4 Great Expectations: Space and Theatre Arts

5 Trial by Space: Incarnating the Revolution

6 Battling Traditional Space: Bringing Modernism from Paris töNew¿York

7 Transformative Space: Into the Future

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Irena R. Makaryk is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa.