THE march Selamat Tinggal Slavianka can be faintly heard transmitted from a radio. The theater at Salihara is shrouded in darkness. It is still empty. That hymn of the Bolshevik revolution can be heard played over and over again introducing the atmosphere of the performance. The audience enters the theater space.

In the past, in the early 20th century, this march served as an effective propaganda tool for proletarian politics which moved the hea