Article ID: CBB000670191

“Correcting Nature's Mistakes”: Transforming the Environment and Soviet Children's Literature, 1928--1941 (2006)

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As it sought to reconfigure the natural environment and simultaneously create new citizens in the USSR, Joseph Stalin's dictatorship strongly emphasized the conversion of children to socialism. Representations of nature in Stalinist children's literature encompassed not only crude propaganda, but also less adversarial, more scientific expressions of human entitlement vis-à-vis the environment as well as a small but significant number of apolitical celebrations of nature. In so doing, early Soviet children's literature demonstrated the limitations of dictatorial power as well as its extent.

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Authors & Contributors
Josephson, Paul R.
Andrews, James T.
Ash, Mitchell G.
Bouis, Antonina W.
Caron-Leulliez, Marianne
Carson, Cathryn L.
Journals
Istoriko-Biologicheskie Issledovaniia
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
Cambridge University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Brandes & Apsel
Grove Press
Humanity Books
Concepts
Science and politics
Communism
Propaganda
Genetics
Physics
Cold War
People
Stalin, Joseph
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
Hitler, Adolf
Khruschchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Lamaze, Fernand
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Soviet Union
Russia
Germany
Italy
Brazil
China
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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