In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the
new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old
world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable"
space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet
Union. This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support
for state initiatives in the years between the revolution and the
Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity and
territory-an "imaginary geography" of Sovietness. Drawing on a vast
range of little-known texts, Emma Widdis offers a unique cultural
history of the early Soviet period. In particular, she shows how
films projected the new Soviet map onto the great shared screen of
the popular imagination.
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