* 1929 – Valentin Yanin, Russian historian

The Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin: 1917 – 1929, 1979

* 1872 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario, founder of the Ballets Russes ( d. 1929 )

Social developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included the relinquishment of the relaxed social control and allowance of experimentation under Lenin to Stalin's promotion of a rigid and authoritarian society based upon discipline – mixing traditional Russian values with Stalin's interpretation of Marxism.

Although Bukharin had not challenged Stalin since 1929, his former supporters, including Martemyan Ryutin, drafted and clandestinely circulated an anti-Stalin platform, which called Stalin the “ evil genius of the Russian Revolution ”.

* 1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician

The Republic of China waged war against invading Soviet and White Russian forces during the Sino-Soviet conflict ( 1929 ), the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang and the Xinjiang War ( 1937 ).

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

Kamov is a Russian rotor-winged aircraft manufacturing company that was founded by Nikolai Il ' yich Kamov, who started building his first rotor-winged aircraft in 1929, together with N. K. Skrzhinskii.

It was merged with Russian part of it in 1924 and was organized as the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous oblast ( province ) within the Tajik SSR in 1929, later the Kohistan-Badakhshan Autonomous Province ( the official name since 1994 ) within Tajikistan.

* Sergei Nilus ( 1862 – 1929 ), Russian religious writer and self-described mystic, one of the first publishers of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

By 1929, the site was deserted, although Russian Orthodox members continued to hold services at the mission.

Additional subspecies, such as T. p. nataliae of Siberia, proposed by the Russian Sergei Buturlin in 1929, are not widely accepted.

Man with a Movie Camera (, Chelovek s kinopparatom ) — sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia — is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

Dziga Vertof's avant-garde Russian film Man With a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) is almost entirely composed of jump cuts.

Other important études of this period include Heitor Villa-Lobos ' virtuoso 12 Études for guitar ( 1929 ) and pieces by Russian composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux ( 1911, 1917 ) and several collections by Alexander Scriabin ( all for piano ).

Zamyatin was disturbed by the way in which the Party viewed literature as a useful tool for realizing its goals, and he witnessed particularly troubling compromises from fellow writers who increasingly toed the party line through institutions like the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers ( RAPP ) or the Writers Union, from which he resigned in 1929.

On August 15, 1929, Emil married Natalia Naumovna Jasny ( Natascha ), a young Russian émigré who had been a student in several of his classes.

The Russian communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote despatches for the paper following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929.

The Commanders organised within the " Russian Grand Priory ", a corporate organisation which existed under various names ; “ Association of Hereditary Commanders ” ( 1928 ), “ Russian Philanthropic Association of the descendants of the hereditary commanders of Sovereign the Order of Malta ” ( 1929 – 1932 ), " Union des Commandeurs Hereditaires et Chevaliers du Grand Prieure Russe de l ' Ordre de St Jean de Jerusalem " ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the longer “ Union ” title given above ( 1958 – 1975 ).

In 1929, Kennan began his program on history, politics, culture, and the Russian language at the University of Berlin's Oriental Institute.

Yelizaveta and Suslov had two children together, Revolii ( born 1929 ) named after the Russian Revolution and his second child, Maya ( born 1939 ) was named after May Day.

Edison Vasilievich Denisov () ( April 6, 1929, Tomsk, Russia — November 24, 1996, Paris, France ) was a Russian composer of so-called " Underground " — " Anti-Collectivist ", " alternative " or " nonconformist " division in the Soviet music.

The unique architectural construction — the steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by the Great Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1929 — is located near the town of Dzerzhinsk on the left bank of the Oka River.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

* Marvin J. Chomsky ( born 1929 ), American television and film director

* 2010 – Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer ( b. 1929 )

In the 2012 Sight and Sound poll, the critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) the 8th best film ever made.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

She made her film debut, under her real name, in the backstage musical Song of Love ( 1929 ).

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

Another crucial literary source for film noir was W. R. Burnett, whose first novel to be published was Little Caesar, in 1929.

* 1929 – Jacques Deray, French film director ( d. 2003 )

Kenneth's career as a director was quickly rising after his debut film Big Time in 1929.

When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film.

He was assigned as " dialogue director " for a film called The Love Doctor ( 1929 ).

In 1929, Ivens went to the Soviet Union and, to his astonishment, was invited to direct a film on a topic of his own choosing which was the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk.

Advertised by MGM as the first " All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing " feature film, it was a hit and won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1929.

The most popular film of 1929 was the second all-color, all-talking feature which was entitled Gold Diggers of Broadway ( 1929 ).

In 1929, Steiner went to Hollywood to orchestrate the European film version of the Florenz Ziegfeld show Rio Rita for RKO.

The play was first heard on film in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, in which John Gilbert recited the balcony scene opposite Norma Shearer.

Thus the modern sound film era may be regarded as coming to dominance beginning in 1929.

Segundo de Chomón ( 1871 – 1929 ), from Spain, released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film.

* Dziga Vertov's experimental 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera includes shots of trams ( at 10 and 42 minutes ).

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

* Waterloo ( 1929 film ), a 1929 German film directed by Karl Grune