Review of the book: Soviet Films about the Village: Attempts at Historical Interpretation of Visual Imagery By: Mazour, Ludmila Nikolaevna, and Gorbachev, Oleg Vital’evich

The book by L.N. Mazour and O.V. Gorbachev, Soviet Films about the Village: Attempts at Historical Interpretation of Visual Imagery depicts a detailed picture of Soviet Films dealing with the village life in the Soviet Union. The authors present Soviet village films as a historical document and a tool used by the Soviet authorities to influence the rural audience, and educate it. However, Soviet village films were far from constituting a trustworthy historical document, as they ignored central and global events that occurred in the Soviet Union during the extended decades of its creation. The authors of the book present an unreliable picture of Soviet rural existence.