THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1917 AND THE FATE OF THE RUSSIAN FILM INDUSTRY

Androsov Andrey Anatolyevich

The article raises insufficiently studied issues of the state and development of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema on the eve and during the revolutions of 1917, on the issue of uniting film industry workers into creative and professional unions, establishing a working control and nationalization of cinematographic property, the fate of the most famous cinema figures in a difficult period of history, the attitude of the new government to cinema.

Keywords:Pre-revolutionary Cinema, Skobelevsky Committee, Association of Cinematographic Societies (ACS), Moscow Society of Theater Owners, Union of Art Cinematography Workers, workers' control in cinema, Board of the Union of Film Workers, the nationalization of cinemas