梅耶荷德遭到批判并引起爭論的五部導演作品,即《委任狀》《自殺者》《一次生命》《寬宏大量的烏龜》和《欽差大臣》。蘇聯教育人民委員部領導人盧那察爾斯基與全蘇藝術事務委員會領導人克爾任采夫對上述作品有不同立場、不同評價:盧那察爾斯基不但學識淵博,而且具有堅定的原則性,不論左的傾向還是右的傾向,都堅決反對;而克爾任采夫雖然也熟悉戲劇藝術,但是缺乏崇高的品質和人格,左右搖擺,見風使舵,唯上是從,粗暴地處理了梅耶荷德及其劇院的存在問題,導致了梅耶荷德的悲劇,造成了蘇聯戲劇事業的重大損失。

This paper reviews five controversial and harshly criticized works directed by Meyerhold,namely The Mandate,The Suicide,One Life,The Magnificent Cuckold,and The Inspector General.With the comparison of the different attitudes and comments of Lunacharski,the leader of the Ministry of People’s Education of the Soviet Union,and Kerenzev,the leader of Soviet Art Commission,on the five works,this paper contests that Lunacharski was not only a man of knowledge,but also a man of principles,who objected to both the progressive and the conservative,while Kerenzev,though familiar with theatre arts,was artful and slimy,who only followed the order of the senior officers and dealt with the problems of Meyerhold and his theatre roughly,which led to the tragedy of Meyerhold and caused great loss to Soviet theatre.