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After the October Revolution of 1917, the impetus tocontrol authorship, the potential of children’s literature asa creative medium, and the desire to communicate their visions tochild-readers and their parents drew many ideologues to children’sliterature. Political figures, pedagogues, bureaucrats, authors, and illustratorsentered into a public debate about what form a Soviet children’sliterature should assume. This interdisciplinary study integratesoriginal Russian archival research, scholarship in Russian culturaland social history, and theoretical studies of children’s literature toshow how the process of creating children’s literature in Soviet Russiawas a contested one. Adults entered into a symbolic discussion about themeaning of their past, present, and future by authoring and contestingchildren’s literature.
