Dziga Vertov, at birth named David Abelevich Kaufman, played a crucial part in revolutionary cinema during the rise of Lenin’s Bolsheviks during the 1920s and onto 1930s. Vertov was influential in the spread of the Russian Revolution in a time without instant and mass communication, where he would produce “revolutionary propaganda” in the form of cinema … Continue reading Is This the Dziga You’re Looking For? →
Month: September 2018
Bad Romance. By Lady MacBeth of Mtsenk.
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Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk is a novella by the Russian novelist, Nikolai Leskov, that was published in 1985. Before his writing career, he traveled all over Russia as a clerk for a criminal court and got to experience contemporary Russian life, his travels allowed him to meet Russian peopleof different customs, ethnicities, and regions. This … Continue reading Bad Romance. By Lady MacBeth of Mtsenk. →
