Stalin’s Final Films – new monograph by Dr Claire Knight

Stalin’s Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were made, film attendance also peaked as Soviet audiences voted with their seats and distinguished a clearly popular postwar cinema.

Dr Claire Knight (Max Hayward Visiting Fellow at RESC, 2016-17) has published her monograph Stalin’s Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Postwar Soviet Reality 1945-53 with Cornell University Press. More here