After WW1, the economy was led into crises, and there was a massive human toll, and this then led to the monarchy being overthrown February 1917.

roughly 90% of film stock came from over seas, so after the war, disrupted this trade, and Russia lost a lot of their film stock.

After the downfall of the monarchy, the government became a very regulatory, and nothing negative was allowed to be said, politics almost became the new religion as all other religions were ban