| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Picturing a New Childhood -- Part I: Fairy-Tale Nation -- 1 The Poet, the Priest, and the Peasant -- 2 Up, Up, and Away on the Little Humpbacked Horse -- Part II: The Afterlife of Russian Classics -- 3 The Bronze Horseman Rides Again -- 4 Anna Karenina and the Mother-and-Child Reunion -- Part III: War-Time Picture Books -- 5 Mayakovsky Is Marching with Us -- 6 Pochta: Circulation, Delivery, Return -- Conclusion: Yesterday and Today -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children's literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin - a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. Through an analysis of illustrations in fairy tales, classics, and wartime picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children's literature in repurposing the past. Picturing the Page demonstrates that while the texts of the past remained fixed, illustrations could slip between the pages to mediate and annotate that past, as well as connect with anti-religious, patriotic, and other campaigns that were central to Soviet children's culture after the 1917 Revolution."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Children's literature, Soviet -- Illustrations
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Illustrated children's books -- Soviet Union -- History
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Illustration of books -- Soviet Union -- History
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Children's literature, Soviet -- History and criticism
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Children -- Books and reading -- Soviet Union -- History
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HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Children -- Books and reading
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Children's literature, Soviet
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Illustrated children's books
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Illustration of books
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Illustrated works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442667426 |
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1442667427 |
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9781442667419 |
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1442667419 |
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