"The Youth of Maxim" (1935) details the conversion of an ignorant
factory worker into a revolutionary in the years 1905-1907. The film, as
was part of a series, was meant to make Bolshevism attractive, and it
engendered censorship controversies when it was released in the U.S.
The police commissioner of Detroit, Michigan, acting as censor, banned
the film as being "pure Soviet propaganda and likely to instill class
hatred of the existing government and social order of the United
States." When the ban was challenged in the local courts, it was upheld
on the principle that motion picture exhibitors were constitutionally
bound to eschew showing films that were either "obscene" or
"immoral."