COMMUNISM IDEOLOGY IN THE RUSSIAN RUSSIAN AFTER SOVIETS: “AMIRAL” FILM AND SEMIOTICS ANALYSIS

This study examines how the ideology of communism is presented in the Russian cinema after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this respect, the 2008 Admiral Film, one of the films that recently obtained the biggest box office hit in Russian cinema, was handled, using semiotic method. The study was analyzed according to thenarrative analysis of Algirdas Julien Greimas, one of the most important representatives of semiotics. In the light of the findings, it was observed that the ideology of communism was severely criticized in Russian cinema in the new period, in contrast to the Soviet period. As a result, in this study, it was tried to show how the Russian cinema evolved after the Sovie