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...