Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I
Theoretical and Historical Introduction
1. Social Reality and Ideology in Interaction
2. State, Ideology, and Film in Soviet History
PART II
Soviet Movies in the Revolutionary Period (1918-1928): Cordial Acceptance of Official Ideology
3. Soviet Movies in the Aftermath of the October Revolution: The Civil War
4. The Partial Restoration of Capitalism (1921-1929)
PART III
Movies During Stalin's Time: Total Submission to the Official Ideology
5. Stalin and Soviet Movies
6. Industrialization and Collectivization (1929-1934)
7. Time of Mass Terror (1934-1941)
8. The Great Patriotic War
9. Stalin's Postwar Years
PART IV
The Game with Official Ideology
10. Movies during the First Thaw (1954-1968): Timid Challenges to Official Ideology
11. Movies in the Period of Conservatism (1968-1985):
The Use of Diversified Official Ideology for Social Critique
PARTV
Soviet Cinematographers Reject Official Ideology:
Cinema during the Last Years of the Soviet Empire
12. 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 Empire
References Illustrations Filmography Director List Index