Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema

Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors'' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia''s last tsar and underwent several periods of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema in the 1910s, the revolutionary avant-garde in the 1920s, the Thaw in the 1950s, and the awakening of national cinemas in the 19...