Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
New Books in Literary Studies
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What's So Great About Lenin and Stalin?
I actually liked that about your book because I saw often the titles of books are so dry. They would be 1917 to 1953. And as you said, again, for the outside reader can be confusing or they cannot understand right away why 1953 rates. Do you think these two periods which are almost 100 years apart can be similar in a way? I think that you have hit the nail on the head and this is the work that is waiting to be written. That 40s and nowadays Putin's Russia with its militarization of childhood and resurrection of ideas of all kinds of martyrdom. These ideas are often channeled onto children and young adults through all kinds of mediums, starting with books and
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