Jacqueline Olich

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

How powerful actors attempted to establish cultural uniformity, how the process was contested, and how it failed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After the October Revolution of 1917, the impetus to
control
authorship, the potential of children''s literature as
a creative medium,
and the desire to communicate their visions to
child-readers and their
parents drew many ideologues to children''s
literature. Political figures,
pedagogues, bureaucrats, authors, and illustrators
entered into a
public debate about what form a Soviet children''s
literature should
assume. This interdisciplinary study integrates
original Russian
archival research, scholarship in Russian cultural
and social history,
and theoretical studies of children''s literature to
show how the process
of creating children''s literature in Soviet Russia
was a contested one.
Adults entered into a symbolic discussion about the
meaning of their
past, present, and future by authoring and contesting
children''s
literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9783639134315
• ISBN-10: 3639134311
• Artikelnr.: 26176120

Autorenporträt

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.