The use of editing in Strike (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) was heavily used in order to tell the tale of the factory workers and it used Soviet Techniques like Montage heavily in it.

One of the main themes from the film, comes as the form of a clear social divide. The workers are seen as worlds away from the bourgeois, perhaps representing the widening gap between the classes at the time. Audiences would relate to this, regardless of their class because this idea was actually happening within the society at the time of the tsarists regime, which was with living memory of the majority of people  A parallel montage is used to show a happy scene of the proletariat eating. This shows how the proletariat work together and a bond which works well particularly with the proletariat at the time of the film’s release. Although they did not have much money, they had love which is shown by their clear happiness.

Next, we are shown a similar scene where the bourgeois  also eat breakfast. However, they are shown without family to represent their selfish greed leading to a lonely life of isolation. This shows of how greed is evil and that it corrupts people, leaving them by themselves, isolated. This montage is significant because it shows a clear divide, this is more important for the audience at the time because their emotional investment in the film would increase because they are understanding and first-hand experiencing this social divide.