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  3. The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917–1929
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      12 July 1979
      ISBN:
      9780511896767
      9780521088558
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896767
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 232 Pages
      • Series:
      LSE Monographs in International Studies
      Subjects:
      Regional and World History: General Interest, History, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Series:
    LSE Monographs in International Studies
    Subjects:
    Regional and World History: General Interest, History, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Much has been written about Soviet literature and its political significance in the years following the October Revolution, but little has been written about the cinema in the same context. And yet in 1922 Lenin said, 'Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.' What did he mean? This book looks at the Soviet cinema in its formative period from the political point of view, examining both the attitude of the authorities towards the cinema and the actual use to which the cinema was put. It demonstrates how, even at the height of the 'Golden Era of the Soviet film', the Bolsheviks repeatedly failed to organise the cinema successfully as an effective propaganda weapon. The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties against which its most famous films can be re-examined.

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    • 2 - The Bolsheviks, propaganda and the cinema
      pp 26-42
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