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...ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...group. Since the Communist Party authoritatively pervades all the groups or Soviets, even the highest, Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party is Boss. When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Recognizable Russians | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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