Oz Behind the Iron Curtain

Oz Behind the Iron Curtain
Title Oz Behind the Iron Curtain PDF eBook
Author Erika Haber
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9781496813602

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The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series

Oz behind the Iron Curtain

Oz behind the Iron Curtain
Title Oz behind the Iron Curtain PDF eBook
Author Erika Haber
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 268
Release 2017-11-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1496813618

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Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers credited Volkov as author rather than translator. Volkov, an unknown and inexperienced author before World War II, tried to break into the politically charged field of Soviet children's literature with an American fairy tale. During the height of Stalin's purges, Volkov adapted and published this fairy tale in the Soviet Union despite enormous, sometimes deadly, obstacles. Marketed as Volkov's original work, Wizard of the Emerald City spawned a series that was translated into more than a dozen languages and became a staple of Soviet popular culture, not unlike Baum's fourteen-volume Oz series in the United States. Volkov's books inspired a television series, plays, films, musicals, animated cartoons, and a museum. Today, children's authors and fans continue to add volumes to the Magic Land series. Several generations of Soviet Russian and Eastern European children grew up with Volkov's writings, yet know little about the author and even less about his American source, L. Frank Baum. Most Americans have never heard of Volkov and know nothing of his impact in the Soviet Union, and those who do know of him regard his efforts as plagiarism. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored by critics, scholars, and librarians for many years.

Kansas, Oz, and the Magic Land

Kansas, Oz, and the Magic Land
Title Kansas, Oz, and the Magic Land PDF eBook
Author Katja Kanzler
Publisher
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Release 2008
Genre
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The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz
Title The Marvelous Land of Oz PDF eBook
Author Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher
Pages 326
Release 1904
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN

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Second Oz book; Scarecrow and Tin Woodman are back with hero named Tip. 120 black-and-white, 16 full-color illustrations.

News from Behind the Iron Curtain

News from Behind the Iron Curtain
Title News from Behind the Iron Curtain PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 768
Release 1953
Genre Communism
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The Genius Under the Table

The Genius Under the Table
Title The Genius Under the Table PDF eBook
Author Eugene Yelchin
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 208
Release 2021-10-19
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1536222348

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An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

Style and Socialism

Style and Socialism
Title Style and Socialism PDF eBook
Author Susan Emily Reid
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages 240
Release 2000-08
Genre History
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This fascinating book takes as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people in Eastern Europe. It provides a revealing window through which to examine the interaction between official state rhetoric and state command on the one hand, and the popular applications of the state's material products on the other. From street fashion to modern art, from the design of state buildings to wallpaper, interconnections between politics and ideology, cultural policy formation and consumption are shown to be a matter of complex negotiation.