In the battle for mass opinion in the Cold War, few weapons were more powerful than the
cinema. From the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution through to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in …

Covering everything from Edison to Avatar, Gomery and Pafort-Overduin have written the
clearest, best organized, and most user-friendly film history textbook on the market. It …

The inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the
course of economic and social disintegration. In order to capture the story, the editors …

This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian
cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the …

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet
system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist …

This article examines the relationship between politics and culture in Great Britain and the
United States during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the period from the late …

The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international
reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers …

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national
histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context …

Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a
popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the …

The adoption of" socialist realism" by the first All Union Congress of Soviet Writers (17
August-1 September 1934) was a seminal event in Russian cultural history on a par with …