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IDEOLOGY AS MASS ENTERTAINMENT: BORIS SHUMYATSKY
AND SOVIET CINEMA IN THE 1930s
Richard Taylor

1 B.Z.Shumyatskii, ‘Tvorcheskie zadachi templana’ [The Creative Tasks of the
Thematic Plan], Sovetskoe kino, no. 12 (December 1933), pp. 1—15.
2 Bol’shaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya [The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia] (3rd edn,
Moscow: 1970—81), vol. 28, col. 1548.
3See: SKhF, vol. 1, pp. 82—3.
4 Pravda, 2 February and 16 February 1926; Kino-gazeta, 16 February 1926.
5 Pravda, 6 July 1926.
6 V.V.Mayakovskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow: 1959), vol. 12, pp. 353—9.
7 A.Piotrovskii, ‘Ob “ideologii” i “kommertsii”’ [On ‘Ideology’ and ‘Commerce’], Zhizn’
iskusstva, 27 December 1927, p. 5; FF, pp. 188—90.
8 B.S.Ol’khovyi (ed.), Puti kino. Vsesoyuznoe partiinoe soveshchanie po
kinematografii (Moscow: 1929), pp. 429—44.
9ibid.
10 See above, ch. 9, n. 2.
11 See: FF, pp. 216—17, 219—20, 225—32.
12 P.Petrov-Bytov, ‘U nas net sovetskoi kinematografii’ [We Have no Soviet Cinema],
Zhizn’ iskusstva, 21 April 1929, p. 8; FF, pp. 259—62.
13 ibid.
14 Quoted in N.A.Lebedev (ed.), Partiya o kino [The Party on Cinema] (Moscow: 1939),
pp. 82—5. This is not the same as the book quoted above in ch. 4, n. 46.
15 A.I.Rubailo, Partiinoe rukovodstvo razvitiem kinoiskusstva (1928—1937gg.) [Party
Guidance of the Development of Cinema Art (1928—37)] (Moscow: 1976), p. 22.
16 Kinospravochnik [Cinema Handbook] (Moscow: 1929), p. 25.
17 Rubailo, p. 20.
18 Ol’khovyi, p. 38.
19 Rubailo, p. 23.
20 A.V.Lunacharskii, ‘O kino’ [On Cinema], Komsomol’skaya pravda, 26 August 1925.
21 Reported in Zhizn’ iskusstva, 24 January 1928.
22 V.Sutyrin, ‘Ot intelligentskikh illyuzii k real’noi deistvitel’nosti’ [From Intelligentsia
Illusions to Actual Reality], Proletarskoe kino, no. 5/6 (May/June 1931), pp. 14—24.
23 E.Lemberg, Kinopromyshlennost’ SSSR [The Cinema Industry of the USSR]
(Moscow: 1930), p. 71.
24 E.Gabrilovich, O tom, chto proshlo [About What Happened] (Moscow: 1967), p. 12.
See also above ch. 10, n. 8.
25 B.Z.Shumyatskii, ‘Signal trevogi’ [Warning Signal], Proletarskoe kino, no. 5/6 (May/
June 1931), pp. 5—7.
26 See, for instance: B.Z.Shumyatskii, ‘Zadachi templana 1934 goda’ [The Tasks of the
1934 Thematic Plan], Sovetskoe kino, no. 11 (November 1933), pp. 1—4; and idem,
‘Tvorcheskie zadachi templana’, op. cit.
27 Reported in Kino, 28 December 1933, pp. 3—4.
28 TsGALI (Central State Archive for Literature and the Arts), 2497/1/64, minute no.
32, dated 27 June 1932, pp. 184—7.