Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, price label on front inner flap. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, moderate to heavy rubbing to edges. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California.  ABOUT THIS: This richly illustrated history of the Soviet cinema covers the films as well as the achievements of the individuals who created them, while providing the basics, such as the developments, leading directors and masterpieces, of each principal period in Soviet film history. Each chapter is devoted to a cinematic decade: the first covers the pre-Soviet era—from the performances of Lumiere's-program to the beginnings of the Russian film industry in 1907, to the end of the Tsarist era. Subsequent chapters treat the early Soviet era, when cinema became "the most important art form," documentaries, the director "greats" (Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin), the cinema during World 

War II, post-war renewal and more recent history. 

NEYA ZORKAYA, a leading film critic in the. Soviet Union, treats 

each film as a work of art with a unique place in history.