Directory of World Cinema: RussiaBe they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisensteins anti tsarist drama, The Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post glasnost thematic explosion, this volume explores the sociopolitical impact of the cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Introductory essays establish key players and