Competing Ideologies and Children's Literature in Russia, 1918-1935

ISBN-13: 9783639134315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str.

Jacqueline Olich

Opis

After the October Revolution of 1917, the impetus tocontrol authorship, the potential of childrens literature asa creative medium, and the desire to communicate their visions tochild-readers and their parents drew many ideologues to childrensliterature. Political figures, pedagogues, bureaucrats, authors, and illustratorsentered into a public debate about what form a Soviet childrensliterature should assume. This interdisciplinary study integratesoriginal Russian archival research, scholarship in Russian culturaland social history, and theoretical studies of childrens literature toshow how the process of creating childrens literature in Soviet Russiawas a contested one. Adults entered into a symbolic discussion about themeaning of their past, present, and future by authoring and contestingchildrens literature.

O autorze

Dr. Jacqueline Olich is the Associate Director of the Center for
Slavic, Eurasian, and
East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She
researches, writes and teaches on the comparative history of
childhood and children s
culture.