Political work Agadzhanova first joined the
Bolshevik faction of the
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (which would later become the
CPSU) in 1907 while studying philosophy and history at university in
Ekaterinodar. From 1907 to 1914 conducted illegal work for the party, helping to create
Bolshevik networks between
Voronezh,
Oryol,
Moscow,
Iranovo-Voznesensk, and
Petersburg. After the revolution, she was drafted to participate in an underground propaganda mission among the
White Guard forces in
Novorossiysk and
Rostov-on-Don. In 1919 she served as a member of the underground
Don Oblast committee of the
CPSU, until she was drafted to become the executive secretary of the
Byelorussian Revolutionary Military Committee in 1920. The committee was headed by
Anatoly Lunacharsky, the
Soviet People's Commissar for Enlightenment, and members of the committee included Agadznahova's close friend
Kazimir Malevich and her husband
Kirill Shutko. Initially,
The Year 1905 was conceived as a coverage of several
events of 1905 including: The
Russo-Japanese War; the
Bloody Sunday massacre; popular uprisings which occurred in both rural and urban areas across the nation; the
general strike and the backlash from the Russian state; a mutiny on the
Russian battleship Potemkin;
counter-Revolutionary and
anti-Jewish pogroms; and the development of a workers' resistance movement in
Krasnaya Presnya. In an essay written in 1945 for a collection to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of
The Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein wrote: "[Nina] was the first Bolshevik civilian I had met - all the others had sat on military committees or they were 'senior staff'. She was quite simply a human being... She instilled in me a true sense of the historical revolutionary past". In 1933, Agadznahova co-wrote
The Deserter alongside Aleksandr Lazebnikov and M. Krasnostavsky. The film was directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin. She collaborated on Pudovkin on another project in 1934 titled
The Intervention, but this film did not make it to production. Between 1930 and 1936 Agadshanova worked as a script consultant at the
Mezhrabpomfilm studios in Moscow. In 1945, she began teaching screenwriting at the
All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, where she worked for several years. == Filmography ==