Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, with a New PostScript and a Filmography Brought Up to the PresentThis history of the turbulent destiny of Kino (film in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre Revolutionary past with its Communist present