The pedagogy of images: depicting communism for children

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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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Balina, Marina 1952- (HerausgeberIn), Ušakin, Sergej Aleksandrovič 1966- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in book and print culture
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Links:https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534653
Zusammenfassung: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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 546 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781487534653
9781487534660
DOI:10.3138/9781487534653