Sara Pankenier Weld, Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetics of the Russian Avant-Garde

Review/Recensio

Sara Pankenier Weld, Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetics of the Russian Avant-Garde

Review/Recensio

Revolution Elsewhere: Soviet Conformist and Non-Conformist Children’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s

Soviet child education in the late 1960s toned down former early Soviet pedagogy goals to mobilize children in the present and encourage their participation in or contribution to revolution, five-year plans or war. Rather than rebel or engage in active conflict, Soviet children of ’68 were encouraged to study representations of revolutionary activism from other times in historical fiction and accounts about the 1917 Revolution and World War II, or elsewhere, be it from the third world or outer space as imagined in adventure novels. Following a short introduction to the period and a brief explanation of significant Soviet symbolic notions of the child, the article analyses the question of rebellion versus adherence in two contrasting examples of Soviet illustrated children’s books: Marta Fomina’s conformist story Independent People (Samostoiatel’nye liudi) from 1969, and Stanislav Rassadin and Benedikt Sarnov’s non-conformist In the Land of Literary Heroes (V strane literaturnykh geroev) from 1979, based on a series of radio programmes for children launched in 1970. Despite the apparent uniformity of the centrally controlled Soviet school syllabus and educational programme of the late 1960s, these two works exemplify the different and contradictory attitudes to children’s behaviour, phantasy and revolutionary potential that young readers and listeners could encounter in children’s books

En hardback-revolution?

Birgitte Beck Pristed: "En hardback-revolution? - Om sovjetisk bogdesign 1935-1960"AbstractBirgitte Pristed: “A Hardback Revolution?: Soviet Book Design 1935-1960”In Western book history the period 1935-60 has often been referred to as a “paperback revolution”. However, in the USSR the relation between fiction titles in hard covers and paper covers developed opposite to the Western trend, towards a consolidationof the hardback in the post-war period. The rise of the cheap, but solid, standardised, mass produced Soviet hardback was closely connected to the shifts in Soviet publishing politics and emphasized the role and status of literature in Soviet book culture

Justitsministeren behandler forskere som politiske modstandere

De lever i en parallelvirkelighed, mener Peter Hummelgaard om de forskere, der modsiger hans politiske forslag. Men når forskere på den måde bliver behandlet som politiske modstandere, skader det i længden både samfundet og politikerne selv

Le '68 des enfants / The Children's '68

Sous la direction de Sophie Heywood et Cécile Boulaire / Edited by Sophie Heywood and Cécile Boulair

Unge forskere: Regeringens forskningsstrategi er som et afsnit af skærmtrolden Hugo

Universiteter er ikke virksomheder. Men uden politiske ambitioner ender forskningen som en aparte finansieret gren af erhvervslivet, advarer en stribe forskere med tilknytning til Det Unge Akademi