Editing Cinema of the Soviet Union (section)

==Revolution and Civil War==
[[File:USSR 1950 1410 1480 0.jpg|thumb|1950 postage stamp, marking 30 years of Soviet film. It quotes Stalin, who calls cinema "the greatest medium of mass [[Agitprop|agitation]]."]]
On August 27, 1919, Vladimir Lenin nationalized the film industry and created post-imperial Soviet films "when all control over film production and exhibition was ceded to the People’s Commissariat of Education."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Levaco |first1=Ronald |date=1984–1985 |title=Censorship, Ideology, and Style in Soviet Cinema |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3592(84)90019-X |journal=Studies in Comparative Communism |volume=17 |issue=3–4 |pages=173–185 |doi=10.1016/0039-3592(84)90019-X}}</ref> The work of the nationalized motion-picture studios was administered by the All-Russian Photography and Motion Picture Department, which was reorganized in 1923 into [[State Committee for Cinematography|Goskino]], which in 1926 became Sovkino. The world's first state-filmmaking school, the [[Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography|First State School of Cinematography]], was established in Moscow in 1919.

During the [[Russian Civil War]], [[agit-train|agitation trains]] and ships visited soldiers, workers, and peasants. Lectures, reports, and political meetings were accompanied by newsreels about events at the various fronts.