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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The Story of Military Secret in the Soviet Union - Book Review
In this book you've got a plot based around a boy hero who is fighting against a global virus that is infecting people with indifference and disloyalty. And who is called upon to protect those values up to and including his arrest, his torture, his death by firing squad. So there are absolutely important parallels to be drawn between what's what's happening in terms of militarization of children's literature in the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s, mothers were encouraged to become storytellers, kazuchin, right, for their children. Do you think that the state or even Stalin himself became such a kazuchinic?
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