Russian Children's Literature and Culture

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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 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