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Inside the rainbow : Russian children's literature, 1920-35 : beautiful books, terrible times / edited by Julian Rothenstein and Olga Budashevskaya ; foreword by Philip Pullman ; with an essay by Arkady Ippolitov

Published
London : Redstone, 2013.
Physical Description
312 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour), portraits ; 30 cm
Additional Creators
Rothenstein, Julian, 1948-, Budashevskai︠a︡, O. (Olʹga), and Ippolitov, Arkadiĭ

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Language Note
English, with some text translated from Russian.
Contents
Foreword / Philip Pullman -- Introduction: Imaginationland, USSR / by Arkady Ippolitov -- Inside the rainbow / by Olga Budashevskaya -- Little comrades -- What is good and what is bad -- How the world works -- What grown-ups do -- On the move -- Meet the remarkable animals -- Tall tales -- Let's play -- Let's study, study and study -- Hide and seek.
Summary
"Inside the rainbow" reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet picture books from the 1920 and 1930s - a highpoint in the history of children's literature. In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, a group of Russian poets and artists, among the greatest of the century, came together to create a new kind of book for children about to enter a Brave New World. ...These artists and writers dreamed of endless possibilities in a new world where children and grown-ups alike would be free from the bitterness of ignorance. For a time, when children's publications still escaped the scourge of state censorship, their books became a last haven for learning, poetic irony, burlesque and laughter. In this book 250 examples of illustration and design are complemented by some wonderful translations of poems and stories as well as texts from the victims, criminals and witnesses to the Russian revolution..."--Page 4 of cover.
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ISBN
9781870003957 (pbk.)
1870003950 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the George K. and Anna I. Yonchuk and John G., Sr. and Agnes A. Yonchuk Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies; 2013.
Endowment Note
George K. and Anna I. Yonchuk and John G., Sr. and Agnes A. Yonchuk Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies
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