Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina is a PhD student in the joint program in Film and Media Studies & Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Anastasia’s academic interests lie within documentary history and theory with particular focus on the relationships between documentary and ideology. Prior to joining Yale University, Anastasia worked as a documentary film editor for the state-sponsored Russian news TV-channel RT.

1927: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Esfir Shub)

Anastasia Kostina

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

Compiling History for Masses: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty In August 1926, Sovkino, the Soviet state body in control of cinema production, commissioned Esfir Shub to make a film commemorating the tenth anni...