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doi:10.12987/yale/9780300092912.002.0006

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May 2003

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When the Soviet Union went to war in 1941, it did so under the banner of a new identity and defended a new vision of its territory. In this book, I will explore the role of film in the creation of that identity—and that territory. I will examine how the Soviet space was represented in documentary and feature films made between 1917 and 1941, and trace the evolution of Russia's new “imaginary geography” under Lenin and Stalin.

To some extent, the dates that delimit my period of enquiry are inevitably artificial. I chose them, however, to mark out what I believe to be the long period during which models of spatial organization were tested and debated in cultural texts in Soviet Russia. I will focus in particular on the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s—on the period of the First Five-Year Plan and the beginnings of Stalinist consolidation. The scope of the book, however, is not and cannot be limited to this short period, and the broader time frame is vital to my argument. In the same way, this is a book about film, but in it I also draw extensively on a wide range of other materials and sources to illustrate and substantiate my broader claims. I hope, above all, to begin to answer two interrelated questions: First, how was the Soviet space imagined in cultural production? How did these “imaginary geographies” reflect real questions about the organization of the territory? And second, what kind of experience of the space was pictured? How did cultural texts offer models of a transformed relationship between Soviet man and woman and a transformed world? Film, then, can be only a part of the larger enquiry into the space and spaces of the Soviet utopia.

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