Russian children's literature and culture

Author(s)

• Balina, Marina
• Rudova, Larissa

Bibliographic Information

Russian children's literature and culture

edited by Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova

（Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor, [v. 48]）

Routledge, c2008

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p.347-368) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Soviet 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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA83553088
• ISBN:
  • 9780415978644
  • 9780415888875
• LCCN: 2007009501
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 390 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG3190
  • DC22 : 891.709/9282
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Children's literature, Soviet -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Children's literature, Russian -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Children -- Books and reading -- Soviet Union
  • LCSH : Children -- Books and reading -- Russia (Federation)
  • LCSH : Children's films -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26577674