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With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost. Within the framework of an introduction that lays out the conceptual terminology used to describe that shifting ideological landscape, the authors analyze both the social groups appearing in the films and the relations of film directors and other film makers to state censorship and ideological control.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART ITheoretical and Historical Introduction1.Social Reality and Ideology in Interaction2.State, Ideology, and Film in Soviet HistoryPART IISoviet Movies in the Revolutionary Period (1918-1928): Cordial Acceptance of Official Ideology3.Soviet Movies in the Aftermath of the October Revolution: The Civil War4.The Partial Restoration of Capitalism (1921-1929) PART IIIMovies During Stalin's Time: Total Submission to the Official Ideology5.Stalin and Soviet Movies6.Industrialization and Collectivization (1929-1934) 7.Time of Mass Terror (1934-1941) 8.The Great Patriotic War 9.Stalin's Postwar YearsPART IVThe Game with Official Ideology10.Movies during the First Thaw (1954-1968): Timid Challenges to Official Ideology11.Movies in the Period of Conservatism (1968-1985):The Use of Diversified Official Ideology for Social CritiquePARTVSoviet Cinematographers Reject Official Ideology:Cinema during the Last Years of the Soviet Empire12.The First Years of Freedom: The Beginning of the Offensive against Official Ideology 13.Movie Heroes 1986-1989 14.Total Freedom from Totalitarianism and Its Ideology 15.Russian Movies After the Fall of the EmpireReferences Illustrations Filmography Director List Index
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Greenberg, Michael R. | Shlapentokh, Dmitry
Summary
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost.
