Soviet Cinema

1936. AROSSEV, A. [ed.]. Soviet Cinema. 312 pp., illustrated throughout, plus 14 pp. of advertisements. 8vo, bound in publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Moscow: Voks, 1936. An unusually fine copy of this rare and fragile history of Soviet film with photomontages by Rodchenko and Stepanova. Published at the high watermark of state-controlled Soviet cinema and includes work by some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium. The plate depicting Stalin's head in profile printed on cellophane is still intact, unlike in almost all copies. Heiting and Karasik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1940, p. 418-419.