Cinema and the discourse of power in the Soviet Union of the 1920s - the first half of the 1930s

The article considers the early period of the formation of Soviet cinema taking into account the new socio-cultural and economic realities of the USSR. At this stage, the cinema is directly involved in the life of the society as an ideological tool of mass impact, which sets the vector of understanding events and actions to the broad sections of the population. The author dwells in detail on the creation of key documents and organizations regulating the role and place of cinematography in the new Soviet culture. A separate attention in the article is paid to the practice of commented films, which was formed in the 1920s, and had as its aim an intentionally explanation of the films by the specially trained political workers of Agitprop, the so-called “red commentators”. The author notes that the oral accompaniment of the film by the lecturer in a certain way included the artistic fiction of the painting in the topical summary of real events, thus embedding the work of art in a system of power discourse.