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This collection offers a variety of scholarly views on illustrated books for Soviet children, covering everything from artistic innovation to state propaganda.
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Acknowledgments
Primers of Soviet Modernity: Depicting Communism for Children in Early Soviet Russia
Serguei Alex. Oushakine and Marina Balina
Part One: Mediation
1. Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev’s
Soviet ParadiseHelena Goscilo
2. How the Revolution Triumphed: Alisa Poret’s Textbook of Cultural Iconography
Yuri Leving
3. Foto-glaz: Children as Photo-Correspondents in Early Soviet Periodicals
Erika Wolf
4. Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as a Constructivist Do It Yourself Book
Aleksandar Boškovi¿
5. The Fragile Power of Paper and Projection
Birgitte Beck Pristed
Part Two: Technology
6. From Nature to "Second Nature" and Back
Larissa Rudova
7. The Production of the Man-Machine: The Child as Instrument of Futurity
Sara Pankenier Weld
8. Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power
Kirill Chunikin
9. "Do It Yourself!": Teaching Technological Creativity at the Time of Soviet Industrialization
Maria Litovskaia
10. The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky’s
Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven Development
Michael Kunichika
11. Aero-plane, Aero-boat, Aero-sleigh: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet Transportation
Katherine M. N. Reischl
Part Three: Power
12. Spatializing Revolutionary Temporality: From Montage and Dynamism to Map and Plan
Kevin M. F. Platt
13. "Poor, Poor Il’ich": Visualizing Lenin’s Death for Children
Marina Sokolovskaia and Daniil Leiderman
14. Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Solder as Icon
Stephen M. Norris
15. The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Inventing the Aesthetics and Anatomy of Class for Soviet Children
Alexey Golubev
16. Amerikanizm: The Brave New World of Soviet Civilization
Thomas Keenan
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Edited by Marina Balina and Serguei Alex Oushakine
Summary
This collection offers a variety of scholarly views on illustrated books for Soviet children, covering everything from artistic innovation to state propaganda.
