author : Richard TaylorRichard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Swansea University, Wales. His numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet cinema, include Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany (1998) and the KINOfile Film Companion to The Battleship Potemkin (2001), both I.B.Tauris. He is Series Editor of Tauris' "KINO: The Russian Cinema Series.