Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

London : Redstone, 2013.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Budashevskai︠a︡, O. (Olʹga)
• Rothenstein, Julian, 1948-
• Ippolitov, Arkadiĭ
• Budashevskai͡a, O. (Olʹga)
• Lurye, Sasha.

Description

311 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour), portraits; 30 cm

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.

Subject

• 1900-1945
• Children's literature, Soviet > History and criticism
• Picture books for children > Soviet Union
• Picture books for children > Soviet Union > Pictorial works
• Bilderbuch
• Design
• Kinderliteratur
• Literaturproduktion
• Russisch
• Sowjetunion

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Pictorial works

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• "Further reading": page 311.

Language (note)

• English, with some text translated from Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by 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.

ISBN

• 9781870003957 (pbk.)
• 1870003950 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 852808501
• SCSB-10706811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library