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u/smokeuptheweed9 ยท 3 pointsr/communism101

Well you'll have to pick one is the point. You can either pick a type of culture or a specific period of time, because all culture ussr too broad as to be meaningless. I find cinema the most interesting and you'll have to read about early Soviet cinema (the Eisenstein-Vertov debate is the foundation of cinema), then the realist file and melodramas of the 30s and early 40s, then the height of modernist epics vs "bard" films in the 60s-70s, then science fiction and petty-bourgeois "gore" films of the 80s. There is a lot of overlap between these categories and periods and many of these categorizations come from western academia rather than the films or Russian people (hence tinged with anti-communism) but you still want to think about films historically and what they mean as historical objects vis-a-vis socialism's rise and fall in the USSR. Also be careful what you read because "good" is defined as "anti-communist", that is so foundational it isn't even mentioned. The essential thing is to start at the beginning so you understand what film is, what its class nature and social function are, what are its technical possibilities (in a McCluhanian sense), and what its relationship to history is. Avoid wikipedia for anything other than basic information obviously.

E: there's not much point recommending books since you'll read whatever the school library has but you'll want to start with a basic reader like this

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Soviet-Cinema-Guide/dp/0810876191/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540054345&sr=8-1&keywords=Soviet+cinema

And then specific investigations like these

https://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Soviet-Thaw-Materiality-Movement/dp/0253026962/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1540054345&sr=8-3&keywords=Soviet+cinema
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Science-Fiction-Literature-Cinema/dp/1618117238/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1540054345&sr=8-4&keywords=Soviet+cinema
https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Cinema-Silent-1918-1935-Studies/dp/0292776454/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1540054345&sr=8-8&keywords=Soviet+cinema

And throw in a film theory reader

https://www.amazon.com/Film-Theory-Basics-Kevin-McDonald/dp/1138797340/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540055087&sr=8-2-fkmr3&keywords=Film+theory+vertov+eisenstein
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Film-Perspectives-Mike-Wayne-ebook/dp/B00V50U6SA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540055250&sr=8-2&keywords=Marxist+theories+of+film

Personally I didn't like the latter but I understand it is not for me.