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OverviewSoviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children’s culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) , Larissa Rudova (Pomona College, California, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: v. 48 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.910kg ISBN: 9780415978644ISBN 10: 0415978645 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 04 October 2007 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Series Editor’s Foreword Preface INTRODUCTION: Reading Soviet and Post-Soviet Children’s Culture: Contexts and Challenges 1. Creativity through Restraint: The Beginnings of Soviet Children’s Literature Marina Balina 2. From Character Building to Criminal Pursuits: Russian Children’s Literature in Transition PART I Ideology, Literature, and Culture: Genres, Themes, and Issues 3. The Whole Real Children’s World: School Novella and ""Our Happy Childhood"" Evgeny Dobrenko 4. Between Sputnik and Gagarin: Space Flight, Children’s Periodicals, and the Circle of Imagination Anindita Banerjee 5. Crafting the Self: Narratives of Pre-Revolutionary Childhood in Soviet Literature Marina Balina 6. Literature and Cultural Institutions By and For Soviet and Post-Soviet Youth Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya PART II Popular Children’s Entertainment 7. Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for Children and Adolescents Alexandr Prokhorov (College of William and Mary) 8. Comforting Creatures in Children’s Cartoons Birgit Beumers (U of Bristol) 9. Juggernaut in Drag: Theater for Stalin’s Children Boris Wolfson (USC) 10. ‘Nice, Instructive Stories Their Psychology Can Grasp’: How to Read Post-Soviet Russian Children’s Comics Jose Alaniz (U of Washington) PART III: Authors and Texts 11. Samuil Marshak—Yesterday and Today Ben Hellman (University of Helsinki) 12. Lev Kassil’: Childhood as Religion and Ideology Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Eugene Lang College, The New School) 13. Pavel Bazhov’s Skazy: Discovering the Soviet Uncanny Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado) 14. A Traditionalist in the Land of Innovators: the Paradoxes of Sergei Mikhalkov Elena Prokhorova (University of Richmond) 15. Evgenii Shvarts’s Fairy Tale Dramas: Theater, Power, and the Naked Truth Anja Tippner (University of Salzburg) 16. Invitation to a Subversion: The Playful Literature of Grigorii Oster Larissa Rudova (Pomona College) Contributors Index"ReviewsThis volume is the first book-length study of Russian children's literature in English, and as such it is particularly welcome. -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2009 This volume is the first book-length study of Russian children's literature in English, and as such it is particularly welcome. -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2009 This volume is the first book-length study of Russian children's literature in English, and as such it is particularly welcome. -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2009 Author InformationMarian Balina is Professor Russian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has co-edited a number of collections, including Politiciing Magic: Russian and Soviet FairyTales (2005), Dictionary of Literary Biography: RussianWriters Since 1980 (2003), and Endquote: Sots-ArtLiterature and Soviet Empire Style (2000). LarissaRudova is Associate Professor of Russian at Pomona College. She is author of Pasternak's Early Fiction andthe Cultural Vanguard (1994) and Understanding BorisPasternak (1997). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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