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1 See: E.Schmulévitch, ‘Le Décret de nationalisation du cinema russe’, Positif, no. 178
(February 1976), pp. 34—40; ibid., no. 179 (March 1976), pp. 55—62; ibid., no. 180
(April 1976), pp. 55—61.
2 See the figures provided in S.P.Hill. ‘A Quantitative View of Soviet Cinema’, Cinema
Journal, vol. 12, no. 2 (1972), p. 21.
3 See, for example: G.Mast, A Short History of the Movies (3rd edn, Indianapolis, Ind.:
1981), ch. 8; and A.Knight, The Liveliest Art (rev. edn, New York: 1979), pp. 65—85.
4 Leyda (3rd edn, Princeton, NJ: 1983), p. 7.
5 Babitsky and Rimberg, ch. 1; Taylor, chs 3—7.
6 The following outline of developmental principles and their application to the Soviet
economy, encompassing the next several paragraphs of text, draws from several
sources. On developmental principles generally, see: C.R.McConnell, Economics:
Prlnciples, Problems, and Policies (7th edn, New York: 1978), ch. 21. On their
applications to the Soviet system, see: N.Spulber, Soviet Strategy for Economic
Growth (Bloomington, Ind.: 1964); D.A.Dyker, The Soviet Economy (New York:
1976), ch. 1; R.W.Campbell, The Soviet-Type Economies (3rd edn, Boston, Mass.:
1974), chs 1, 4 and 6; E.Zaleski, Planning for Economic Growth in the Soviet Union,
1919—1932 (Chapel Hill, NC: 1971), chs 1—2. On the history of the Soviet economy,
especially the transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy, see:
A.Nove, An Economic History of the USSR (Harmondsworth: 1969), chs 3—4;
M.Dobb, Soviet Economic Development since 1917 (rev. edn, New York: 1966), chs
4—8.
7 Nove, pp. 46—69.
8 ibid., p. 47; Dobb, pp. 84—8.
9 I.S.Smirnova (ed.), Samoe vazhnoe iz vsekh iskusstv: Lenin o kino [The Most
Important of All the Arts: Lenin on Cinema] (Moscow: 1973), pp. 116—17; Marchand
and Weinstein, pp. 14—15; I.N.Vladimirtseva and A.M. Sandler (eds), Istoriya
sovetskogo kino 1917—1967 [The History of Soviet Cinema 1917—1967] (4 vols,
Moscow: 1969—76), vol. 1, p. 14.
10 L.Aksel’rod, ‘Dokumenty po istorii natsionalizatsii russkoi kinematografii’
[Documents on the History of the Nationalisation of Russian Cinema], Iz istorii kino
1 (Moscow: 1958), pp. 25—7; Vladimirtseva and Sandler, vol. 1, p. 19.
11 Aksel’rod, pp. 26—8; Marchand and Weinstein, pp. 17—19; Vladimirtseva and Sandler,
vol. 1, pp. 15—18.
12 Marchand and Weinstein, pp. 33—4; Aksel’rod, p. 31.
13 Aksel’rod, pp. 29—34.
14 ibid., pp. 32—4; Vladimirtseva and Sandler, vol. 1, p. 19; N.F. Preobrazhenskii,
‘Vospominaniya o rabote VFKO’ [Reminiscences of the Work of VFKO], Iz istorii
kino 1 (Moscow: 1958), pp. 85—90.
15 Smirnova, p. 51.
16 Vladimirtseva and Sandler, vol. 1, pp. 22—3; Preobrazhenskii, pp. 88—9.
17 Vladimirtseva and Sandler, vol. 1, p. 22.
18 ibid., p. 21; Aksel’rod, pp. 35—6.
19 These figures are derived from production catalogues in SKhF, vol. 1, pp. 5—31 and
vol. 3, pp. 249—306. Roughly one-third of the private production activity took place in
outlying areas, most commonly on the Black Sea coast.
20 On exhibition arrangements, see: Economic Review of the Soviet Union, 15 March
1932, p. 142; Vladimirtseva and Sandler, vol. 1, pp. 16—17; Aksel’rod, p. 31;