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

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 illustrate...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies in Book and Print Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; 149 colour illustrations, 106 b&w illustrations
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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