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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.

Film --- Sociology of culture --- anno 1920-1929 --- Russian Federation --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures in propaganda --- Communism and motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Cinéma dans la propagande --- Communisme et cinéma --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- 791.43.01 --- -Motion pictures --- -Motion pictures in propaganda --- -#SBIB:309H1313 --- #SBIB:309H1320 --- Moving-pictures in propaganda --- Propaganda in motion pictures --- Propaganda --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Communism and moving-pictures --- Motion pictures and communism --- Filmologie. Filmtheorie. Esthetica van de film --- History --- Geschiedenis en/of organisatie van het filmwezen: algemeen en per land (met inbegrip van de rol van het filmwezen in de ontwikkelingsproblematiek) --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- History and criticism --- 791.43.01 Filmologie. Filmtheorie. Esthetica van de film --- Russia --- Cinéma --- Cinéma dans la propagande --- Communisme et cinéma --- #SBIB:309H1313 --- Political aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Communism and motion pictures. --- History.