For Lenin, cinema had a special rank among other arts as he told Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Soviet commissar of education, in February 1922 “in our country, you have the reputation of being the protector of the arts. So, you must firmly remember that for us the most important of all the arts is cinema.” (qtd. in Kenez 2003, 27) Lenin believed that cinema could play a big role in educating people politically. Leon Trotsky also believed that cinema is “the weapon, who cries out to be used, is the best instrument for propaganda ….. a propaganda which is accessible to everyone….. cinema would serve as a the great eye opener for masses, the liberating educational weapon for a socialist society” (qtd. in Tylor 1998,35). At the beginning, the Norkompros established a movie subsection in 1918 under the heading of Lenin’s wife; this subsection was responsible for spreading the propaganda among adults. They tried to encourage using the film for political-educational purposes (Kenez 2003,
For Lenin, cinema had a special rank among other arts as he told Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Soviet commissar of education, in February 1922 “in our country, you have the reputation of being the protector of the arts. So, you must firmly remember that for us the most important of all the arts is cinema.” (qtd. in Kenez 2003, 27) Lenin believed that cinema could play a big role in educating people politically. Leon Trotsky also believed that cinema is “the weapon, who cries out to be used, is the best instrument for propaganda ….. a propaganda which is accessible to everyone….. cinema would serve as a the great eye opener for masses, the liberating educational weapon for a socialist society” (qtd. in Tylor 1998,35). At the beginning, the Norkompros established a movie subsection in 1918 under the heading of Lenin’s wife; this subsection was responsible for spreading the propaganda among adults. They tried to encourage using the film for political-educational purposes (Kenez 2003,