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Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk. Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet ...
At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.
In Soviet cinema, the opposite was true in [The Meeting on the Elbe]." [13] This demonstrated the heightened paranoia of the Soviet Union. Despite efforts made to elevate the status of cinema, such as changing the Committee of Cinema Affairs to the Ministry of Cinematography, cinema did not seem to work as invigorating propaganda as was planned.
The Soviet era was the golden age of Russian science fiction. [8] Soviet writers were innovative, numerous and prolific, [9] despite limitations set up by state censorship. Both Russian and foreign writers of science fiction enjoyed mainstream popularity in the Soviet Union, and many books were adapted for film and animation.
The first main film production and distribution organisation in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1924 was Goskino; this was succeeded by Sovkino from 1924 to 1930, and then replaced with Soyuzkino in 1930 chaired by Martemyan Ryutin, [1] which had jurisdiction over the entire USSR until 1933, when it was then replaced by GUKF (The Chief Directorate of the Film and Photo ...
Old Mosfilm logo Entrance sign to Mosfilm Studios in Mosfilmovskaya Street.. The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly.
Five–Year Plan for the Restoration and Development of Soviet Cinematography / Ivan Bolshakov, Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union – 2nd Edition (Revised) – Moscow: State Publishing House of Cinematic Literature, 1946 (Printing House "Red Banner") – 47 Pages; Soviet Cinema in 1947: Transcript of a Public Lecture Delivered on ...
Russian Futurist cinema refers to the futurist movement in Soviet cinema. Russian Futurist cinema was deeply influenced by the films of Italian futurism (1916–1919) most of which are lost today. Some of the film directors identified as part of this movement are Lev Kuleshov , Dziga Vertov , Sergei Eisenstein , Vsevolod Pudovkin and Aleksandr ...