Political, social and cultural changes brought about by the reforms undertaken in the Soviet Union after Stalins death, have been an object of extensive studies. However, the periods cinema - a key provider of ideological support to the reformist project - has received less systematic attention. This book regards the films produced in the early post-Stalin period as articulation of the Russian cultural tradition associated with the values of the intelligentsia, a champion of the reforms. Representations of the intelligentsias worldview are examined in the framework of the concord between this...
Political, social and cultural changes brought about by the reforms undertaken in the Soviet Union after Stalins death, have been an object of extensi...