Russian children's literature and culture
By: edited by Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova.
Contributors: Balina, Marina.; Rudova, Larissa, 1953-
Series: Children's literature and culture -- 48
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780415978644
Subjects: Children's literature, Soviet -- History and criticism; Children's literature, Russian -- History and criticism; Children -- Books and reading -- Soviet Union; Children -- Books and reading -- Russia (Federation); Children's films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creativity through restraint : the beginnings of Soviet children's literature / Marina Balina; title: From character building to criminal pursuits : Russian children's literature in transition / Larissa Rudova; title: The whole real children's world : school novella and "our happy childhood" / Evgeny Dobrenko; title: Between Sputnik and Gagarin : space flight, children's periodicals, and the circle of imagination / Anindita Banerjee; title: Crafting the self : narratives of pre-revolutionary childhood in Soviet literature / Marina Balina; title: Literature and cultural institutions by and for Soviet and post-Soviet youth / Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya; title: Arresting development : a brief history of Soviet cinema for children and adolescents / Alexandr Prokhorov; title: Comforting creatures in children's cartoons / Birgit Beumers; title: Juggernaut in drag : theater for Stalin's children / Boris Wolfson; title: "Nice, instructive stories their psychology can grasp" : how to read post-Soviet Russian children's comics / Jose Alaniz; title: Samuil Marshak : yesterday and today / Ben Hellman; title: Lev Kassil : childhood as religion and ideology / Inessa Medzhibovskaya; title: Pavel Bazhov's skazy : discovering the Soviet uncanny / Mark Lipovetsky; title: A traditionalist in the land of innovators : the paradoxes of Sergei Mikhalkov / Elena Prokhorova; title: Evgenii Shvarts's fairy tale dramas : theater, power, and the naked truth / Anja Tippner; title: Invitation to a subversion : the playful literature of Grigorii Oster / Larissa Rudova.