Contents Acknowledgements Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: ''The Only Universal National Text'': On the Centennial ofSoviet Children's Literature and Film Olga Voronina Forging a New Children's Culture: (R)evolution, Poetics,Aesthetics 1 Unnatural Selection: A Natural History of Early Soviet Picturebooks Sara Pankenier Weld 2 The Junctures of Child Psychology and Soviet Avant-Garde Film:Representations, Influences, Applications Ana Hedberg Olenina 3 The Dictionary as a Toy Collection: Interactions between Avant-GardeAesthetics and Soviet Children's Literature Ainsley Morse 4 The Literary Avant-Garde and Soviet Literature for Children: OBERIU in the Leningrad Periodicals and Oleg Minin Constructing Socialism, Building the Self: History, Ideology,Narrative 5 Re-Imagining the Past for Future Generations: History as Fiction inSoviet Children's Literature Marina Balina 6 Education of the Soul, Bolshevik Style: Pedagogy in Soviet Children'sLiterature from the 1920s to the early 1930s Olga Voronina 7 ''Be Always Ready!'': Hero Narratives in Soviet Children's Literature Svetlana Maslinskaya 8 Unspeakable Truths: Children of the Siege in Soviet Literature Tatiana Voronina and Polina Barskova New Approaches to the Avant-Garde: Reconstructing theCanon 9 Children's Poetry and Translation in the Soviet Era: Strategies ofRewriting, Transformation and Adaptation Maria Khotimsky 10 Under the Hypnosis of Disney: Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Soviet Animationfor Children Lora Wheeler Mjolsness 11 Embracing Eccentricity: and the Avant-GardeImagination Larissa Rudova 12 The Queer Legacies of Late Socialism, or What Cheburashka and GaryShteyngart Have in Common Anna Fishzon Bibliography Index.