The Soviet Union’s film industry was particularly notable for its extensive use of propaganda through film in the early 1900s ...

The Cold War is over. There is an entire generation of adults who never lived in a world with a Berlin Wall, or a Soviet Union. Of course, for many years, films related to the tenuous dynamic between ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.

James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Russian mother who became a celebrated child actor of the Stalinist era for his role in a 1930s propaganda film mythologizing ...

In the cynical Brezhnev-era Soviet Union—where propaganda clashed with daily deprivation—Putin found a model of power in the romance of espionage. This chapter follows the stories, myths, and ...

Many of us are still being kept inside by COVID, so here’s a new round of streaming recommendations to keep you occupied. There’s no theme this time around; just a selection of great films from a wide ...

In Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel The Master And Margarita, first published in 1966, the devil -- named Woland -- tells writer Ivan Bezdomny that "manuscripts don't burn." The thread ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked silent masterpiece is being reassessed for just this reason. Subscribe to our ...

Thikon Khrennikov is now 91 years old, but as the first Secretary of the Union Composers - he was the bureaucrat who made life miserable for both Shostakovich and Prokofiev during the most terrifying ...

Red Army nurse's song = Pesniiai voennoi. sestry Kr[asnoi.] Armii -- Red Army nurses arrive at the front = Voennye sestry Kr[asnoi.] Armii pribyli na front -- Youth = Molodezhnaiiai -- Enthusiasm ...