Russia
• Ruled by the Czar • 1905 Russo-Japanese War • 1905 Revolt • 1914 World War I • 1917 February Czar deposed, Kerensky heads
provisional government • 1917 October Bolsheviks seize government, establish
Soviet Union (1917-1991) • Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin
Dziga Vertov
• 1896-1954 • Worked on Soviet agitprop train • 1922-5 Kino-Pravda, Kino Eye • 1929 The Man With A Movie Camera
Montage – Film Editing
• Lev Kuleshov – Creative Film Experiments • Eisenstein’s Montage of Attractions
Sergei Eisenstein
• 1898 - 1948 • 1924 STRIKE • 1925 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN • 1927 OCTOBER/TEN DAYS THAT
SHOOK THE WORLD • 1938 ALEXANDER NEVSKY • 1945 IVAN THE TERRIBLE
Soviet Montage
• V.I. Pudovkin (1893-1953) MOTHER (1926), THE END OF ST PETERSBURG, STORM OVER ASIA (1927)
• Olexandr Dovzhenko (1894-1956) EARTH (1930)