The Influence Of Stalin's Cinema

Lastly, the cinema was considered to play a significant role, and Stalin himself liked watching films and had his personal cinema. Cinemas came under the control of the Politburo’s economic department. The objectives of films were to gain understandings by the masses and promote the state. Plots and storyline were prescribed by Stalin. Accordingly, many documentaries supporting the First Five-Year Plan were produced. Moreover, all the films had to be precensored in the State Committee for Cinematography and previewed by Stalin. As a result, the number of production dropped and only about sixty films were made per year. Nonetheless, the cinema was the most popular form of entertainment and had a great influence on people. Plus, the development of the sound technology made films even more influential and beneficial form of propaganda.
Socialist Realism had another purpose; it was to help the development of Stalin’s cult of personality and glorify his role as a great leader. Images of Stalin on posters and paintings, in books and as statues were seen everywhere in the Soviet Union. He is always wearing uniform indicating his discipline and hard work. He is also often surrendered by happy children, appealing his kindness and humanity. Additionally, his active
Although the culture and the arts experienced an advance with the Cultural Revolution, there was almost a step back from it in the following period. This denial of new form of culture and arts is referred as a “Great Retreat” and still remains a debate between historians to whether it actually existed or not. For the culture and the arts, even though the return to traditional values was evident, their contents and purpose are considered modern; the culture and the arts were only a method and a type of propaganda used to promote economic activity, the social utopia, national defense and adulation of the