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2. General History
2.1. General History of Russia and the Soviet Union
Hosking, Geofrrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union From Within. Second, enl. ed. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.
MacKenzie, David and Michael W. Curran. A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond. 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993.
Treadgold, Donald. Twentieth Century Russia. 8th ed. Boulder: Westview P, 1995.
2.2. Russo-Soviet Material and Popular Culture
Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
Boym, Svetlana. Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.
Cherednichenko, Tat’iana. Tipologiia sovetskoi massovoi kul’tury: mezhdu “Brezhnevym” i “Pugachevoi.” Moskva: RIK “Kul’tura,” 1994.
Stites, Richard. Russian popular culture: Entertainment and society since 1900. NY: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Zorkaia, Neia. Fol’klor. Lubok. Ekran. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1994.
–. Na rubezhe stoletii: u istokov massovogo iskusstva v Rossii 1900-1910 godov. Moskva: Nauka, 1976.
2.3. Russo-Soviet Film Posters
Azernikov, V., E. Volodarskii, and B. Zinov’ev, comps. Sovetskii kinoplakat, 1920-1930 . Moskva: Kontakt-Kul’tura, 1994.
Baburina, Nina. The Soviet Arts Poster: Theatre, Cinema, Ballet, Circus, 1917-1987 . NY: Penguin, 1990.
Barkhatova, Elena. Russian Constructivist Posters . Paris: Flammarion, 1992.
Constantine, Mildred and Alan Fern. Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1974.
Kherroubi, Aïcha and Valérie Posener. Le Studio Mejrabpom: ou l’aventure du cinéma privé au pays des bolcheviks . Les Dossiers du musée d’Orsay 59. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996.
Mount, Christopher. Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design . NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997.
Pack, Susan. Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde . Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995.
Rodionova, Galina, comp. The Soviet Cinema Poster . Leningrad: Aurora Art Pubs, 1983.
Snopkov, A., P. Snopkov, and A. Shkliaruk, eds. Kino plakat. K 15-letiiu Natsional’noi kinematograficheskoi premii “Nika.” Moskva: Kontakt-Kul’tura, 2002.
—, eds. Russkii kinoplakat . Moskva: Kontakt–Kul’tura, 2002.
Waschik, Klaus. “Nachwort.” Seht her, Genossen! Plakate aus der Sowjetunion . Der bibliophlien Taschenbücher 334. Dortmund: Rheinisch-Westfälischen Auslandsgesellschaft, 1982.
Yegorov, Alexander and Victor Litvinov, comps. The Posters of Glasnost’ and Perestroika . NY: Penguin, 1989.
2.4. World Film History
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. 4th ed. NY: McGraw-Hill Co., 1993.
Cook, David A. A History of Narrative Film. 3rd ed. NY: Norton, 1996.
Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media. Rev. ed. NY: Oxford UP, 1981.
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey. The Oxford History of World Cinema. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.
Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell. Film History: An Introduction. NY: McGraw-Hill Co., 1994.