The pedagogy of images : depicting communism for children / edited by Marina Balina and Serguei Alex. Oushakine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balina, Marina, editor.

Ushakin, S. (Sergeĭ), 1966- editor.

University of Toronto. Press, publisher.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union.

Children's literature, Soviet--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Soviet.

Illustrated children's books--Soviet Union.

Illustrated children's books.

Literacy--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Literacy.

Education--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Education.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Communism in literature.

Propaganda, Soviet.

Education--Political aspects.

Literacy--Political aspects.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Publishers advertisements.

Physical Description:

xx, 546 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In the 1920s, with the end of the Revolution, the new Soviet government began investing resources and energy in creating a new type of the book for the first Soviet generation of young readers. In a sense, these early Soviet books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity. Creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children's books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, an object of affection, and a product of labour, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads--communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda--Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were supposed to appropriate. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev's Soviet Paradise / Helena Goscilo

How the Revolution Triumphed: Alisa Poret's Textbook of Cultural Iconography / Yuri Leving

Foto-glaz: Children as Photo-Correspondents in Early Soviet Pioneer Magazines / Erika Wolf

Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as a Constructivist Pedagogical Cine-dispositive / Aleksandar Bošković

The Fragile Power of Paper and Projections / Birgitte Beck Pristed

From Nature to "Second Nature" and Back / Larissa Rudova

Autonomy and the Automaton: The Child as Instrument of Futurity / Sara Pankenier Weld

Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power / Kirill Chunikhin

"Do It All Yourself!" Teaching Technological Creativity during Soviet Industrialization / Maria Litovskaya

The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky's Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven Development / Michael Kunichika

Aeroplane, Aeroboat, Aerosleigh: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet Transportation / Katherine M.H. Reischl

Spatializing Revolutionary Temporality: From Montage and Dynamism to Map and Plan / Kevin M.F. Platt

Poor, Poor Il'ich": Visualizing Lenin's Death for Children / Daniil Leiderman and Marina Sokolovskaia

Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Soldier as Icon / Stephen M. Norris

The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Imagining Class for Soviet Children / Alexey Golubev

Amerikanizm: The Brave New New World of Soviet Civilization / Thomas Keenan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher's advertisements: final leaf.

Local Notes:

Kislak copy retains dustjacket.

ISBN:

9781487506681

1487506686

OCLC:

1223015217