Introduction : entering the film factory / Richard Taylor and Ian Christie
Early Russian cinema : some observations / Yuri Tsivian
Kuleshov's experiments and the new anthropology of the actor / Mikhail Yampolsky
Intolerance and the Soviets : a historical investigation ; The origins of Soviet cinema : a study in industry development / Vance Kepley, Jr.
Down to earth : Aelita relocated / Ian Christie
The return of the native : Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema / Denise J. Youngblood
A face to the shtetl : Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924-36 / J. Hoberman
A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet director / Bernard Eisenschitz
Interview with Alexander Medvedkin
Making sense of early Soviet sound / Ian Christie
Ideology as mass entertainment : Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet cinema in the 1930s / Richard Taylor.
