The role of children’s cinema in supporting educational and cultural ideologies in the 1920s and 1930s in Russia

Abstract

The research is devoted to studying a phenomenon of children’s cinema in the 1920s-1930s. In different countries children’s cinema developed in various social, economic, cultural, historical and political conditions. The authors describe children’s cinema as an important tool of social education used in Russia within the specified period. Pedagogical periodical press of the 1920s-1930s, works of American, European and Russian researchers in the field of children’s cinema were used as sources for this paper.