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Book Traces the Alternate Realities of Life Under Stalin, Specifically Regarding Cinema

A senior lecturer in Russian at Bristol University, Claire Knight knows her subject back-to-front and round again. The research she’s done in this byway of world culture is daunting.

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Joseph Stalin, 1930. Via Wikimedia Commons
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‘Stalin’s Final Films; Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953’
By Claire Knight
Cornell University Press, 268 Pages

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​Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

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