References in this index are all to page numbers: entries in roman type are to documents and entries in italic to illustrations. Entries in bold type are to major references, e.g. where a person is the author of a document or a film is the subject of a review. Only significant references in the endnotes and appendices have been included.
Abortion (Lemberg & Baklin), 124, 125, 130, 150, 427
The Accordion (Savchenko), 15, 427
acting; in cinema, 153, 157, 161, 167, 204–5, 237–9, 243, 393–7; the model actor, 67, 69, 108; in theatre, 60, 204–5, 271
The Adventures of Oktyabrina (Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg), 101, 106, 257, 339, 427
Aelita (Protazanov), 100, 101, 117, 119, 125, 189, 427
Aerograd (Dovzhenko), 15, 332–3, 383–4, 427
Afinogenov, Alexander N., 361
Agadzhanova-Shutko, Nina F., 323, 332, 437
agitprop, 109, 121, 206, 207, 225, 253–4, 301, 405; see also: cinema, and state/Party
Aikhenvald, see: Eichenwald
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein), 15, 16, 370, 372, 398–401, 399, 427
Alexandrov, Grigori V., 2, 6, 13, 191, 192, 194, 199, 205–6, 217, 218, 224, 232, 233, 234–5, 235, 249, 254–7, 256, 298, 307, 317, 335–7, 346, 366, 367–9, 375, 376–7, 437
Alien (Eggert), 221
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone), 322, 435
Alone (Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg), 9, 15, 315, 339, 342, 353, 365, 42
‘Americanism’, 53–4, 58–9, 70, 72, 73, 104, 117, 128, 134, 149; see also: Westernism
Andreyev, Leonid N., 19, 21, 27–31, 37–8, 64, 437
Anoshchenko, Alexander D., 103, 285, 437
Anoshchenko, Nikolai D., 293–4
Apollon (Apollo, St Petersburg/Petrograd, 1909–17), 33
ARK, 101, 103, 121, 195, 200, 249, 286–7, 405; see also: Kinozhurnal ARK
Armoured Train 14–69, 178–9, 420 n. 116
Arnshtam, Leo O., 16
ARRK, 193, 249, 275–80, 283, 286–7, 291–2, 315, 320–3, 405
Arsen Dzhordzhiashvili (Perestiani), 20
The Arsenal (Dovzhenko), 259, 262–3, 268, 277, 352, 427
Babel, Isaak E., 147, 251, 333, 437
Babochkin, Boris A., 335–7, 395
Balázs, Béla, 137, 144–7, 148, 445
Baranovskaya, Vera V., 237, 239, 437
Barnet, Boris V., 11, 15, 16, 186, 192, 237, 238, 314, 387, 437
Barr, Alfred, 4
Bassalygo, Dmitri N., 104, 289, 437
Batalov, Nikolai P., 350
The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), 2, 4–6, 12, 14, 137–8, 139–43, 142, 146, 148, 150, 156, 162, 167, 169, 172–3, 176, 183, 188–9, 193, 198–200, 204, 207, 220, 224, 230–2, 249–50, 254, 259, 262–3, 290, 298, 317, 338, 349, 351, 368, 427; reception in Berlin, 4, 137; reception in New York, 4, 8
Bauer, Evgeni F., 21, 40, 42, 45, 437
The Bay of Death (Room), 127, 151, 251, 427
The Bear’s Wedding (Eggert & Gardin), 136, 138, 143, 250, 427
Bed and Sofa (Room), 427
Bedny, Demyan, 380, 427 n. 207
Bek-Nazarov, Amo I., 335–7, 350, 438
Belenson, Alexander, 147, 419 n. 97
Belgoskino (organisation), 310
Benjamin, Walter, 4
Benois, Alexander N., 62, 418 n. 43
Bezhin Meadow (Eisenstein), 2, 13, 346, 371, 378–81, 382, 386, 427
The Birth of a Nation (Griffith), 149
Bleiman, Mikhail Yu., 286, 332, 335–7, 438
Bliokh, Yakov M., 335–7, 387, 393, 438
Blok, Alexander A.: The Twelve’, 120, 216
The Blue Express (Ilya Trauberg), 298, 427–8
Blyakhin, Pavel A., 160, 171–2, 335–7, 438
Blyum, Vladimir I., 101, 103, 116–20, 438
Boltyansky, Grigori M., 121, 134–5, 438
Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir V., 195, 420 n. 124
Borderline (Macpherson), 410 n. 64, 435
Boule de Suif (Romm), 285 Bravko, N., 103, 303
Brewster, Ben, 9–10
Brigade Commander Ivanov (Razumny), 81, 428
Brik, Lily Yu., 32
Brik, Osip M., 13, 132, 184–5, 186, 193, 225–30, 256, 438
Brodyansky, Boris L., 335–7, 438
Bryher (Ellerman, A. W.), 1, 445
Bryusov, Valeri Ya., 216
Bukharin, Nikolai I., 116, 172, 196, 387–9, 438
Bukhkino (organisation), 403
Burlyuk, David D., 35, 417 n. 9
Burning Embers (Mosjoukine & Volkov), 104, 435
By the Bluest of Seas (Barnet), 15
By the Law (Kuleshov), 166, 237, 238, 288, 289, 428
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene), 108, 129
Cabiria (Pastrone), 21, 74; see: Maciste
Café Fanconi (Kapchinsky), 167
Cahiers du cinéma (Paris), 12
The Cameraman’s Revenge (Starewicz), 20
Capital (Eisenstein project), 227
Carmen (Lubitsch), 131, 175, 433
Carter, Huntly, 3
Cézanne, Paul, 62
Chapayev (Georgi & Sergei Vasiliev), 13, 15–16, 191, 316–17, 334–5, 336, 338–40, 346, 348, 352–4, 358–63, 362, 367–8, 395, 428; as model for Shchors, 384
Chaplin, Charles S., 53, 59, 62–3, 88, 98–9, 104, 159, 177, 183, 272, 376; Behind the Screen, Chaplin and Anne Boleyn, Chaplin in the Cinema, Chaplin in the Salvation Army, His New Job, Easy Street, 98–9, 435; see also: Modern Times, A Woman of Paris
Chardynin, Pyotr I., 20, 104, 438
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai G.: What Is To Be Done?, 327
Chervyakov, Evgeni V., 241, 289, 335–7, 438
The Chestnut-Tree (Preobrazhenskaya), 149
Chiaureli, Mikhail E., 335–7, 346, 384, 438
Chicago (Urson), 268, 269–70, 435
Chukovsky, Kornei I., 19, 27, 61, 438
The Cigarette-Girl from Mosselprom (Zhelyabuzhsky), 101, 428
Cine-Calendar (newsreel), 105, 130
Cine-Eye (film: Vertov), 118, 119–20, 130, 200
Cine-Eyes (group), 54, 69–72, 81, 83, 86, 89–94, 101, 105–7, 112–21, 129–31, 133, 137, 150–4, 159, 203, 299–305, 300; and sound, 93, 129–31, 161, 299–305, 300
Cine-Gazette (newsreel), 78, 84
cinema: agitki, 109; as art form, 27–31, 33–8, 41–6, 66–9, 84, 101, 154, 179–80, 188, 196, 209, 212, 218, 265; 1935 awards to film-makers, 346, 357; censorship, 56, 57, 291 (see also: Glavrepertkom); children’s films, 210–12, 215, 247, 263, 279; and church, 94–7; cinefication, 151, 215, 218, 279, 283, 290–2; cinema specificity, 45, 137; and circus, 59, 60, 104–5; as collective effort, 146, 194; colour, 234; film comedy, 109, 211, 333, 346, 368–9, 374; musical comedy, 317, 346, 367–9, 370; commerce and ideology, 154–6, 159, 173, 175, 188–91, 196–7, 205–7, 209–12, 215, 218, 239–41, 245–6, 276; and countryside, 53, 109, 121, 124–8, 127, 149, 193, 195, 208, 210, 218, 247, 254–7, 263–4, 279, 293–4, 390; documentary and fiction (‘played and non-played’), 14, 69–72, 75–9, 83–4, 89–94, 105–7, 112–20, 129–31, 137, 150–1, 157, 159–62, 184–6, 191, 194, 225–6, 271, 285, 299–305, 316, 321–2, 328; in the East, 53, 117, 193, 210–12; in education, 293–4; as entertainment, 155, 197, 209–10, 293; film school (including GIK, GTK, VGIK), 3, 10, 22, 115, 134, 243, 315, 321, 371, 381–3; finance, 194, 196, 205–6, 213–15, 245–6, 249–51; foreign films in USSR, 57, 72–3, 104, 106, 116–17, 124–5, 134, 150, 159–61, 214, 215, 220–1, 257, 276–7, 279 (see also: Americanism; Expressionism, German); genres, 188, 210, 373–4; ‘inner speech’, 157; intertitles, 153–4, 165, 169, 203, 235, 280–1, 311; ‘left’ cinema, 75–7, 104–5, 140–3, 187–8, 283, 287–90; and literature, 98–9, 164–6, 198, 264, 319, 329–30; and machine (age), 54, 58, 69–72, 84, 89–94, 236, 308; management, 242–3, 310, 369, 378–81; music, 212, 236, 302, 306, 360–2, 390–3; newsreel, 56–7, 69–72, 75–9, 83–4, 89–94, 105–7, 110, 119–20, 129–31, 134, 137, 150–4, 160–1, 172–4, 184, 211, 217, 226, 293, 309, 390–3; and painting, 35–7, 41–3, 45–6, 131–3, 154; plot (including fabula and syuzhet), 121, 147, 153–4, 159, 161–9, 177, 180, 184–5, 193, 235, 333; poetry and prose in, 176–8, 180–3, 216, 258; projectors, mobile, 126–8, 127, 134, 149, 196, 290, 293–4, 304, 390; ‘proletarian episode’ in, 193–4, 247–9, 253–4, 259–62, 275–80, 283, 286–92, 315, 318–22, 325; Soviet film abroad, 3, 6–7, 156, 215, 234, 276–7, 279, 351; and state/Party, 47–53, 94–7, 101–3, 109–11, 114–15, 121, 154–6, 205–15, 218, 220–5, 253–4, 310–11, 315–16, 318–22, 325, 334–7, 340–3, 345–55, 357–8, 373; stereoscopy, 234; taxation, 124, 215; and theatre, 21, 27–31, 33–9, 41–3, 45–6, 64–9, 74, 115–23, 125–9, 159, 178–80, 191, 204–5, 223, 234–5, 249, 271–5, 391; training and need for trained cadres, 103, 111, 172, 206, 211–13, 241–5, 247, 249, 253–4, 292, 294–5, 310; as vodka substitute, 82, 94–7, 101, 196, 213, 215; see also: montage; script, scriptwriter; sound
Cine-Pravda (newsreel: Vertov), 55, 77–9, 84, 92, 94, 105–7, 112–4, 125, 129–31, 161, 227; Lenin
Cine-Pravda, 125, 130, 132, 150–1, 299
Cinéthique (Paris), 12
Cine-Week (newsreel), 112
The Circus (Alexandrov), 375, 376–7, 428
Čiurlionis, Mikolajus K., 43, 417 n. 16
Clair, René, 346
Close Up (Territet, Switzerland), 6, 7
Comcultism, 75
Communist Party (France), 11
Communist Party (Germany), 5
Communist Party (of the Soviet Union): 1929 Central Committee decree, 253–4; 1932 decree, 325; 13th Party Congress and cinema, 111, 121, 126; 20th Party Congress, 10
Conference: June 1925 Party C. on Literature, 121, 187–8, 212; 1927 Party C. on Theatre, 157, 187–8, 195, 206; March 1928 Party C. on Cinema, 157, 184, 187–8, 191–7, 205–6, 207–15, 219, 225, 247, 249, 275–80, 283, 291–2; December 1928 Sovkino Film Workers’ C., 194, 241–5, 249–51, 253, 345; August 1930 C. on Sound Cinema, 301–6; January 1935 All-Union Creative C. of Workers in Soviet Cinema, 8, 15, 345, 348–55, 350, 356; December 1935 All-Union C. on Fiction Film Production, 369, 380
Congress: 12th Party C., 208; 13th Party C., 11, 121, 126; 15th Party C., 215; 20th Party C., 10; 1934 C. of Soviet Writers, 316, 331–3, 345, 368
Constructivism, 4, 12, 54, 63, 81, 101, 214, 232
Counterplan (Ermler), 8, 15, 331, 350, 353, 365, 428
Cross and Mauser (Gardin), 156, 428
The Death Ray (Kuleshov), 289, 428
The Decembrists (Ivanovsky), 163, 189, 224, 258, 428
De la Roche, Catherine, 10
Demutsky, Daniil P., 335–7, 427, 428
Le dernier milliardaire (Clair), 346 Derzhavin, Konstantin, 232
The Deserter (Pudovkin), 326, 333, 428
The Devil’s Wheel (Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg), 136, 233, 257–8, 428
Dickens, Charles, 333
Dickinson, Thorold, 10
Dinamov, Sergei S., 348, 351–2, 354–5, 438
The Diplomatic Secret (Chaikovsky), 117
Disney, Walt, 346
The Docks of New York (Sternberg), 269, 435
The Doll with Millions (Barnet), 238, 428
Don Diego and Pelagia (Protazanov), 369, 428
The Donbass Symphony (Vertov), 8, 9, 284, 299, 300, 302–3, 312, 315, 341, 346, 365, 428
The Doomed Battalion (Butcher), 322, 435
Dos Passos, John, 352, 422 n. 194
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M., 83, 94, 161, 333
Dovzhenko, Alexander P., 1, 8, 10, 13, 15, 268, 284, 287, 289–90, 297, 332–3, 335–7, 345–6, 350, 353–4, 372, 382, 383–5, 438
Dr Mabuse (Lang), 108, 137, 435
Drama in the Futurists’ Cabaret No. 13 (Kasyanov), 32
Drankov, Alexander O., 19, 438
Drifters (Grierson), 410 n. 64, 435
Dubrovsky, Alexander M., 137, 149–50, 438
The Earth (Dovzhenko), 284, 285, 297, 428
Earth in Captivity (Otsep), 351
Eccentrism, 17, 58–64, 70, 87, 89, 104–5, 311; see also: FEKS;
Kozintsev; Kryzhitsky; Trauberg, Leonid; Yutkevich
Edison, Thomas: ‘Kinetophone’, 38
Efremov, Mikhail P., 160, 172, 290–1, 438
Eggert, Konstantin V., 136, 138, 438
Ehrenburg, Ilya G., 145, 331, 368, 438
Eichenbaum, Boris M., 174, 176, 278, 419 n. 101, 438
1812 (Khanzhonkov), 24
Eikhenbaum, see: Eichenbaum
Einstein, Albert, 4
Eisenstein, Sergei M., 1–2, 4–6, 9–10, 12–17, 81, 86, 87–9, 103, 104, 112, 122, 137, 139, 140–3, 145–9, 148, 151, 161–2, 163, 172, 179, 182–4, 191, 192, 193–4, 198–200, 204–5, 205–6, 216–17, 218, 219–20, 220–5, 225–34, 234–5, 239, 247, 249, 251–2, 254–7, 256, 259, 264–5, 280, 282, 287, 289–90, 294, 298, 305, 307, 311, 315, 320, 329–30, 332, 335–7, 345–6, 348–9, 351–5, 356, 370, 371–2, 377–80, 382, 398–401, 399, 409 n. 32, 413 n. 105, 438
Ekk, Nikolai V., 314, 315, 433
Ekran (Screen, Moscow, 1921–2), 64
Ekster, see: Exter
Elder Vasili Gryaznov, see: Vasili Gryaznov
The Eleventh Year (Vertov), 200–3, 225–6, 299, 428
Eliso (Shengelaya), 237, 240, 428
Ellerman, Annie Winifred, see: Bryher
The End of St Petersburg (Pudovkin), 157, 158, 180, 181, 252, 259, 262–3, 290, 313, 351–2, 428
Engels, Friedrich, 318
Engineer Prite’s Project (Kuleshov), 44, 428
Enthusiasm, see: The Donbass Symphony
Ermler, Friedrich M., 8, 16, 240, 248, 287, 289, 315, 331–3, 335–7, 344, 345–6, 350, 353, 372, 387, 392, 416 n. 160, 438
Erofeyev, Vladimir A., 103, 298, 341–2, 439
Evreinov, Nikolai N., 128, 439
The Exploits of Elaine (Gasnier & Seitz), 104, 435
Expressionism, 50, 62, 64, 75, 179; German, 1, 17, 63, 108
Exter, Alexandra A., 101
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Kuleshov), 100, 101–2, 104, 106, 108, 289, 429
Faiko, Alexei M., 333, 421 n. 147, 439
Fainzimmer, Alexander M., 15
Fairbanks, Douglas, 5, 129, 445
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Shub), 163, 174, 186, 226–7, 429
Fantômas (Feuillade), 21
Father Sergius (Protazanov), 48, 429
FEKS, 13–14, 53, 58–64, 70, 81, 101, 106, 151, 163, 170, 247, 257–9, 287, 289–90, 311–3, 312, 339–40, 342, 348, 405; see: Eccentrism; Kozintsev; Kryzhitsky; Trauberg, Leonid; Yutkevich
Ferdinandov, Boris A., 429, 439
Ferguson, Otis, 7
Fet, Afanasi A., 177, 420 n. 115
Fettered by Film, see: Shackled by Film
Fevralsky, Alexander V., 150
The Fight for the Ultimatum Factory (Bassalygo), 104, 429
The Fighting Coward (Cruze), 169
Film-Kurier (Berlin), 146, 221
Filmtechnik (Berlin), 145
Five Year Plan, 14–15, 188, 191, 194, 275–80, 299, 310, 323, 324, 337; in cinema, 215; omission of sound, 285, 408 n. 22; see also: The Plan for Great Works
Fogel, Vladimir P., 54, 238, 270, 439
Foolish Wives (Stroheim), 104
Foregger, Nikolai M., 81
Formalism, 10, 12, 157, 159, 246, 249, 261, 274, 278–9, 286, 297, 321, 348, 381; influence in France, 11–12
The Forty-First (Protazanov), 189, 221, 429
Forward, Soviet! (Vertov), 150–3, 200, 429
A Fragment of Empire (Ermler), 8, 248, 277, 352, 429
France, Anatole, 65
Fregoli, Leopoldo, 59, 417 n. 28
Freud, Sigmund, 221
From the Spark – A Flame (Bassalygo), 124
Furmanov, Dmitri A., 334, 359, 363
Futurism, 4, 12, 21, 50, 53, 58, 62, 64, 75, 152, 287, 289
Gabrilovich, Evgeni I., 381, 382
galoshes, 61–2
Gan, Alexei M., 54, 67–8, 76, 78–9, 83, 105–7, 112, 439
Gardin, Vladimir R., 21–2, 136, 170, 172, 335–7, 439
Gauguin, Paul, 65
Gaumont (organisation), 112
Ge, Nikolai N., 43, 60, 417 n. 16
The General Line, see: The Old and the New
Gerasimov, Sergei A., 370, 387, 439
The Ghost That Never Returns (Room), 240, 244, 285, 298, 429
The Girl from a Far River (Chervyakov), 188, 429
The Girl with a Hatbox (Barnet), 238, 429
The Girlfriends (Arnshtam), 15, 429
Glavrepertkom, 117, 171, 206, 253, 291–2, 405; see also: cinema, censorship
Glumov’s Diary (Eisenstein), 86
Godard, Jean-Luc, 12
Gogol, Nikolai V., 178–9, 227, 249–50, 258, 332–3; see also: The Overcoat
The Golden Mountains (Yutkevich), 315, 352–3, 429
Goldobin, Anatoli V., 103, 105, 121, 124–5, 439
Golovnya, Anatoli D., 335–7
Goncharova, Nataliya S., 32
Gorky, Maxim, 19, 25–6, 34, 37, 388
‘Gorky trilogy’, 15
Gosfotokino Armenia (organisation), 403
Goskino (organisation), 53, 81, 83, 85, 100, 105, 107, 115, 121, 122, 124, 134, 149, 151, 168, 288, 403
Goskinprom Georgia, 310, 373, 405
A Great Citizen (Ermler), 372, 387, 392, 429
The Great Consoler (Kuleshov), 326, 345, 429
The Great Flight (Shneiderov), 150
The Great Grief of a Little Woman (Tereschchenko), 277
The Great Way (Shub), 174, 184, 227, 429
Grebner, Georgi E., 332, 335–7, 439
Griboyedov Alexander S., 224
The Gribushin Family (Razumny), 196
Griffith, David Wark, 104, 149, 267, 289, 446
Grimm brothers, 177
Gvozdev, Alexei A., 137, 140–3, 142, 438
Hamsun, Knut, 29
Happiness (Medvedkin), 12–13
The Happy Canary (Kuleshov), 240, 261, 277, 289, 429
The Happy Guys (Alexandrov), 15, 333, 346, 366, 367–9, 429; at Venice Film Festival, 368
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 28
The Headless Rider (Der Reiter ohne Kopf) (Piel), 149
His Call (Protazanov), 122, 429
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 59, 417 n. 28
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 38
Hollywood, 3, 5–7, 9, 17, 346; see also: Americanism
The House of the Dead (Fyodorov), 15
The House on Trubnaya (Barnet), 192, 429
How Are You? (Mayakovsky scipt), 160
How Petunka Went to Ilyich (Doronin), 125
Hugo, Victor, 220
Humoresques (Vertov), 105
Iezuitov, Nikolai M., 367
Ilf, Ilya and Petrov, Evgeni, 333
Imaginism, 75
Impressionism, 62; French, 311
The Indian Tomb (Lang), 102, 112, 250, 436
Inkizhinov, Valeri L, 104, 419 n. 71
Intolerance (Griffith), 22, 74, 436
Iskusstvo kino (The Art of Cinema, Moscow, 1936–41 & since 1945), 373, 383, 387, 389–91, 393
The Island of Bliss (Reinhardt), 38 Ivan (Dovzhenko), 15, 333, 429
Ivan and Maria (Shirokov), 263
Ivanov, Alexander G., 387
Ivanov-Barkov, Evgeni A., 297, 300
Ivanovsky, Alexander V., 80, 335–7
Izvestiya (government newspaper), 107, 160, 309, 338
January the Ninth (Viskovsky), 351
Jannings, Emil, 221
The Jazz Singer (Crosland), 6
Jolly Fellows, see: The Happy Guys
The Journalist, see: Your Acquaintance
Joyce, James, 4
Judas (Ivanov-Barkov), 297–8, 300, 429
Kachalov, Vasili I., 237, 420 n. 138
Kalatozov, Mikhail K., 335–7
Kalinin, Mikhail I., 350
Kamensky, Vasili V., 62, 230, 418 n. 40
Kasyanov, Vladimir P., 32, 103, 439
Katka’s Reinette Apples (Johanson & Ermler), 189, 429–30
Kaufman, Denis A., see: Vertov, Dziga
Kaufman, Mikhail A., 86, 105, 225–6, 335–7, 391, 439
Kautsky, Karl, 51
Kavaleridze, Ivan P., 335–7
Kerzhentsev, Platon M., 207, 341, 439–40
Khanzhonkov, Alexander A., 24, 40, 44, 163, 225, 289, 440
Kheifits, Iosif E., 335–7
Khersonsky, Khrisanf N., 103, 360
Khokhlova, Alexandra S., 237, 440
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 10
Kine-Zhurnal (Cine-Journal), 33–5
Kino (Cinema, Leningrad, 1925 onwards), 174, 219
Kino (Cinema, Moscow, 1926–41), 104, 145, 152–3, 216–17, 271, 290, 321–2
Kino-Fot (Cine-Photo, Moscow, 1922–3), 54, 67–9, 72, 74–5, 78, 83–4, 104, 112
Kino-Front (Cinema-Front, Moscow, 1926–8), 195, 223; see also: Kinozhurnal ARK
Kinogazeta (Cinema Gazette, Petrograd, 1917–18), 45; (published Moscow, 1923–6), 144, 240
Kinoglaz, see Cine-Eye; Cine-Eyes
Kino i kultura (Cinema & Culture, Moscow, 1929–30), 264
Kino i zhizn (Cinema & Life, Moscow, 1929–30), 285–6, 293–4, 297–9, 300, 305, 308, 310, 315; see also:
Sovetskii ekran
Kinoki; Kinoks, see: Cine-Eyes
Kino-Moskva (organisation), 83, 85
Kinonedelya (newsreel), see: Cine-Week
Kino-Nedelya (Cinema Week, Leningrad, Moscow & Berlin, 1924–5), 104, 109–11
Kinosever (organisation), 105
Kinozhurnal ARK (ARK Cinema Journal, Moscow, 1925–6), 131; see also: Kino-Front
Kirov, Sergei M., 383, 385, 388
Kirshon, Vladimir M., 137, 143–4, 182–3, 195, 275, 333, 361, 440
The Knot (Shirokov), 163
Komarov, Sergei P., 237, 270, 335–7, 440
Komsomol (organisation), 105, 110, 126, 130, 151, 162, 217, 224, 240, 253, 279, 405
Komsomolsk (Gerasimov), 370, 430
Komsomolskaya pravda (Komsomol newspaper), 154, 195, 218, 310
Korneichuk, Alexander E., 361
Korolenko, Vladimir G., 306
Korsh, Yu., 335–7
Koval-Samborsky, Ivan I., 302, 363
Kozintsev, Grigori M., 13, 17, 58–9, 136, 205–6, 240, 247, 257–9, 260, 312, 315, 332–3, 335–7, 336, 338, 339, 345–6, 349, 350, 370, 372, 440; see also: Eccentrism; FEKS
Kozlovsky, Sergei V., 335–7, 428–32
Krasin, Leonid B., 114, 419 n. 81
Krasnaya gazeta (newspaper), 125, 139
Krasnyi Altai (newspaper), 125
Krinitsky, Alexander I., 207, 440
Krokodil (satirical weekly), 333
Kryzhitsky, Georgi K., 58, 59–61, 440
K. Sh. E. (Shub), 249
Kuleshov, Lev V., 13–14, 16, 21–2, 41–3, 44, 45–6, 54, 66–7, 68–9, 70, 72–3, 74, 77, 100, 103, 104–5, 106, 108, 112, 160, 166, 194, 238, 240, 270, 274, 278, 287, 288, 289–90, 326, 335–7, 345–6, 353, 354–5, 440; Workshop, 22, 101, 106
Kultkino (organisation), 149, 405
Kuzmina, Elena A., 365
Lace (Yutkevich), 251, 259, 430
The Lady and the Hooligan (Slavinsky), 21
The Lame Gentleman (Eggert), 277, 430
Large Wings (Dubson), 386, 430
Larionov, Mikhail F., 32
The Last Company (Die letzte Kompagnie) (Bernhardt), 322
The Last Laugh (Murnau), 223, 436
The Last Masquerade (Chiaureli), 384, 430
The Last Night (Raizman), 15, 381, 382, 430
The Last Port (Kurdyum), 361, 430
Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard, 4
Lebedev, Nikolai A., 103, 322, 440
Lef (published: Moscow, 1923–5), 14, 54, 132, 163, 184–5, 193, 225–32, 283, 287, 405; see also: Novyi Lef
The Legion of the Condemned (Wellman), 322, 436
Lejeune, C. A., 6
Lenfilm (organisation), 316, 344, 346, 373
Lenin, Vladimir I., 2, 12, 17, 50, 53, 56–7, 82, 84, 92, 113–14, 121, 125, 130, 132, 154, 187, 193, 195, 219, 263, 286, 304, 305, 318, 321, 323, 332, 334, 336, 337, 357–9, 363, 370, 388–9; Leninism, 12, 125, 195; ‘Leninist proportion’, 53, 56, 121, 130, 301, 305; portrayal in October, 173–4, 216–17, 227–9; see also:
Lenin in October; October; Three Songs of Lenin
Lenin in October (Romm), 386, 430
Leningradkino (organisation), 149, 260, 402
Leonidov, Leonid M. (actor), 237
Leonidov, O., 335–7
Lermonov, 224
Levidov, Mikhail Yu., 103, 289, 421 n. 155
Lieutenant Kizhe (Fainzimmer), 15, 332, 336, 430
Life Caught Unawares, see: Cine-Eye
Life Laughs (Usoltsev-Garf), 240