prevalent within the films of Sergei Eisenstein. More specifically, Eisenstein's films, Battleship Potemkin and October ideally exemplify the use of propaganda through
the 1905 revolution in Russia, Potemkin was actually shown to rouse the masses against the Russian government. The film takes place on three major settings. The battleship
Black Sea Port and to Moscow where the Soviets were formed and Trotsky became involved. The battleship Potemkin mutinied and tried to help the Odessa rebels. There
and gradually Nicholas II and his government regained control of the situation. 'Bloody Sunday' in 1905 had severely weakened any hope Nicholas II had of calling
images of violence (the individualized images of people against the mass of the soldiers in Battleship Potemkin), the cross-cut editing used as a metaphor in the
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of the shot. The classic example given by Eisenstein is the ?Odessa Steps' sequence from Battleship Potemkin in which the rhythmic descent of the soldiers is contrasted
the workers and reform leaders and the strikes continued to get worse. Sailors on the battleship Potemkin mutinied which sparked off further demonstrations in their
were created by Sergei Eisenstein himself. In the classic "Odessa Steps" scene from The Battleship Potemkin (1925), Eisenstein brilliantly arranged some 200 shots
night the Potemkin arrived and the workers seized their strike with their employers and the government. On the 15 of June, thousands of Odessans flooded the dock