About “Armoured Train 14-69 (Play)”
Armoured Train 14–69 is a 1927 Soviet play by Vsevolod Ivanov, based on his 1922 novel of the same name. It is Ivanov’s first play and his most significant work. The play adapts the novel’s passive protagonist into an active supporter of proletarian ideals, tracing his transformation from political indifference to Bolshevik heroism. Set in Eastern Siberia during the Civil War, it follows a group of partisans led by a peasant farmer, Nikolai Vershinin, as they capture ammunition from a counter-revolutionary armoured train. The play is divided into four acts and eight scenes, featuring nearly 50 characters. Its structure includes episodic crowd scenes. Near the end, a Chinese revolutionary named Hsing Ping-wu lies on the railway tracks to stop the armoured train. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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