This collection offers a variety of scholarly views on illustrated books for Soviet children, covering everything from artistic innovation to state propaganda.

Edited by Marina Balina and Serguei Alex Oushakine

Acknowledgments

Primers of Soviet Modernity: Depicting Communism for Children in Early Soviet Russia
Serguei Alex. Oushakine and Marina Balina

Part One: Mediation

1. Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev’s Soviet Paradise
Helena Goscilo

2. How the Revolution Triumphed: Alisa Poret’s Textbook of Cultural Iconography
Yuri Leving

3. Foto-glaz: Children as Photo-Correspondents in Early Soviet Periodicals
Erika Wolf

4. Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as a Constructivist Do It Yourself Book
Aleksandar Boškovi¿

5. The Fragile Power of Paper and Projection
Birgitte Beck Pristed

Part Two: Technology

6. From Nature to "Second Nature" and Back
Larissa Rudova

7. The Production of the Man-Machine: The Child as Instrument of Futurity
Sara Pankenier Weld

8. Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power
Kirill Chunikin

9. "Do It Yourself!": Teaching Technological Creativity at the Time of Soviet Industrialization
Maria Litovskaia

10. The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky’s Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven Development
Michael Kunichika

11. Aero-plane, Aero-boat, Aero-sleigh: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet Transportation
Katherine M. N. Reischl

Part Three: Power

12. Spatializing Revolutionary Temporality: From Montage and Dynamism to Map and Plan
Kevin M. F. Platt

13. "Poor, Poor Il’ich": Visualizing Lenin’s Death for Children
Marina Sokolovskaia and Daniil Leiderman

14. Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Solder as Icon
Stephen M. Norris

15. The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Inventing the Aesthetics and Anatomy of Class for Soviet Children
Alexey Golubev

16. Amerikanizm: The Brave New World of Soviet Civilization
Thomas Keenan

List of Illustrations
Contributors