Pedagogy of Images

Marina Balina is a professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University and holds the Isaac Funk professorship.Serguei Alex. Oushakine is a professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

• Acknowledgments Primers of Soviet Modernity: Depicting Communism for Children in Early Soviet RussiaSerguei Alex. Oushakine and Marina BalinaPart One: Mediation 1. Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev’s Soviet ParadiseHelena Goscilo 2. How the Revolution Triumphed: Alisa Poret’s Textbook of Cultural IconographyYuri Leving 3. Foto-glaz: Children as Photo-Correspondents in Early Soviet PeriodicalsErika Wolf 4. Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as a Constructivist Do It Yourself BookAleksandar Bošković5. The Fragile Power of Paper and ProjectionBirgitte Beck PristedPart Two: Technology 6. From Nature to "Second Nature" and BackLarissa Rudova 7. The Production of the Man-Machine: The Child as Instrument of FuturitySara Pankenier Weld8. Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power Kirill Chunikin9. "Do It Yourself!": Teaching Technological Creativity at the Time of Soviet IndustrializationMaria Litovskaia10. The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky’s Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven DevelopmentMichael Kunichika 11. Aero-plane, Aero-boat, Aero-sleigh: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet TransportationKatherine M. N. ReischlPart Three: Power 12. Spatializing Revolutionary Temporality: From Montage and Dynamism to Map and PlanKevin M. F. Platt 13. "Poor, Poor Il’ich": Visualizing Lenin’s Death for ChildrenMarina Sokolovskaia and Daniil Leiderman14. Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Solder as IconStephen M. Norris 15. The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Inventing the Aesthetics and Anatomy of Class for Soviet ChildrenAlexey Golubev16. Amerikanizm: The Brave New World of Soviet CivilizationThomas Keenan List of Illustrations Contributors

"One reason this book makes a significant contribution to studies on children’s literature and culture is its remarkable interdisciplinary approach. A persuasive picture of the complicated conditions in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s and their influence on children’s literature can only be conveyed if the political, social, historical, and cultural circumstances are considered and related to one another –which this collection has succeeded in doing to a convincing degree."- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen (International Research in Children's Literature) "This magnificent, beautifully produced volume contains over 250 period illustrations, bringing the object of its important and innovative scholarship to life… The enduring value of this edited volume will be both its scholarship and its stunning visuality and ‘gaze-appeal’"- Megan Swift, University of Victoria (The Russian Review) "For decades to come, The Pedagogy of Images will remain a go-to resource on the early Soviet picture books for literature scholars, historians of public education, researchers of totalitarian art, librarians, and graphic artists."- Olga Voronina, Bard College (Slavic Review) "Covering important topics about Soviet children’s books, this book has made brilliant achievements in the study of children’s literature. It will also open a new horizon for the broader field of Soviet history if one incorporates it into the study of Soviet culture in general." - Michiko Komiya (Acta Slavica Japonica)