The Pedagogy of Images : : Depicting Communism for Children / / ed. by Serguei A. Oushakine, Marina Balina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Balina, Marina,; Bošković, Aleksandar,; Chunikhin, Kirill,; Golubev, Alexey,; Goscilo, Helena,; Keenan, Thomas,; Kunichika, Michael,; Leiderman, Daniil,; Leving, Yuri,; Litovskaya, Maria,; Norris, Stephen M.,; Oushakine, Serguei Alex.,; Platt, Kevin M. F.,; Pristed, Birgitte Beck,; Reischl, Katherine M. H.,; Rudova, Larissa,; Sokolovskaia, Marina,; Weld, Sara Pankenier,; Wolf, Erika,
• HerausgeberIn: Balina, Marina,; Oushakine, Serguei A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 149 colour illustrations, 106 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Primers in Soviet Modernity: Depicting Communism for Children in Early Soviet Russia 3 -- PART I MEDIATION -- Chapter one THREE DEGREES OF EXEMPLARY BOYHOOD IN BORIS KUSTODIEV’S SOVIET PARADISE -- Chapter two HOW THE REVOLUTION TRIUMPHED: ALISA PORET’S TEXTBOOK OF CULTURAL ICONOGRAPH -- Chapter three “FOTO-GLAZ”: CHILDREN AS PHOTO-CORRESPONDENTS IN EARLY SOVIET PIONEER MAGAZINES -- Chapter four AUTONOMOUS ANIMALS ANIMATED: SAMOZVERI AS A CONSTRUCTIVIST PEDAGOGICAL CINE-DISPOSITIVE -- Chapter five THE FRAGILE POWER OF PAPER AND PROJECTIONS -- PART II TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter six FROM NATURE TO “SECOND NATURE” AND BACK -- Chapter seven AUTONOMY AND THE AUTOMATON: THE CHILD AS INSTRUMENT OF FUTURITY -- Chapter eight SPELLS OF MATERIALIST MAGIC, OR SOVIET CHILDREN AND ELECTRIC POWER -- Chapter nine “DO IT ALL YOURSELF!” TEACHING TECHNOLOGICAL CREATIVITY DURING SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION -- Chapter ten THE CAMEL AND THE CABOOSE: VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY’S TURKSIB AND THE PEDAGOGY OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter eleven AEROPLANE, AEROBOAT, AEROSLEIGH: PROPELLING EVERYWHERE IN SOVIET TRANSPORTATION -- PART III POWER -- Chapter twelve SPATIALIZING REVOLUTIONARY TEMPORALITY: FROM MONTAGE AND DYNAMISM TO MAP AND PLAN -- Chapter thirteen “POOR, POOR IL’ICH”: VISUALIZING LENIN’S DEATH FOR CHILDREN -- Chapter Fourteen YOUNG SOLDIERS AT PLAY: THE RED ARMY SOLDIER AS ICON -- Chapter fifteen THE WORKING BODY AND ITS PROSTHESES: IMAGINING CLASS FOR SOVIET CHILDREN -- Chapter sixteen AMERIKANIZM: THE BRAVE NEW NEW WORLD OF SOVIET CIVILIZATION -- Illustration Credits -- Contributors -- Index