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In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government
began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of
book for the first generation of young Soviet readers. In a sense,
these early books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity;
creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals
and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of
politics through literature. Children's books provided the basic
vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary
realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive
modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of
dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a
simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in
easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, object
of affection, and product of labour all in one, the illustrated
book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural
phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in
its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads - communist goals,
pedagogy, and propaganda - The Pedagogy of Images traces the
formation of a mass-modern readership through the creation of the
communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these
early readers were meant to appropriate.
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