Early Soviet Cinema Collection

With more movie screens than any nation at any time, the Soviet Union’s cinematic legacy influenced directors and actors around the world throughout the 20th century.

The Early Soviet Cinema Collection features 119 e-books, most originally published in print from 1926 to 1948, on everything related to the Golden Age of Soviet cinema:

• The early years of the Russian film industry
• Cinema and communist education
• Criticism of foreign film-making
• The role of women in cinema
• The ideology of Soviet films
• The role of atheist documentaries in Soviet society
• And much more

This collection features works of renowned Russian and Soviet film directors, film scholars and film critics of the time, including Lev Kuleshov, Bela Balash, Rudolf Garms, Efraim Lemberg, Natan Zarkhi and others.