Iluminace 1990, 2(1):47-64

A Study of Stalinist Ideology through Film - Chapayev (1934)

Marc Ferro

By analysing the Soviet film Chapayev (1934) and focusing on specific manifestations of ideological assumptions in the image of the legendary commander, one of the leading representatives of the Annales school of French historiography shows what possibilities film as a historical source offers the historian. Translation of the study "The Fiction Film and Historical Analysis" from The Historian and Film (ed. P. I. Smith, Cambridge 1976). Translated by Petr Mareš.

Keywords: film as a historical source, Soviet film of the 1930s, Chapayev, film and ideology, film and Stalinism

Published: March 1, 1990  Show citation

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