A 'Cinema for the Millions

When Boris Shumyatsky became head of the newly centralized Soviet film organization, Soyuzkino, in 1930, he set himself the task of developing an apparatus that would produce films that were ideologically correct and acceptable to the Party and its constituent organs. But this ideologically correct cinema had also to be popular with mass audiences if it were to perform its designated function in elevating the cultural level of the masses in the 'Cultural Revolution' that was to accompany the social and economic upheavals of the first Five-Year Plan period from 1928 to 1933. Soviet cinema in the 1930s could not afford the luxury of an artistic avant-garde: it had to provide what Shumyatsky himself came to call a 'cinema for the millions

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• Late Soviet Film Industry

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• Reading Other People’s Letters in the 1970s

  Olga Klimova•The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review•2013

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• Soviet and Russian Blockbusters

  Open Access•Birgit Beumers•Slavic Review•2003

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• "Cinema for the "Soviet East

  Open Access•Michael G Smith•Slavic Review•1997

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