Creativity through restraint : the beginnings of Soviet children's literature / Marina Balina -- From character building to criminal pursuits : Russian children's literature in transition / Larissa Rudova -- The whole real children's world : school novella and "our happy childhood" / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Between Sputnik and Gagarin : space flight, children's periodicals, and the circle of imagination / Anindita Banerjee -- Crafting the self : narratives of pre-revolutionary childhood in Soviet literature / Marina Balina -- Literature and cultural institutions by and for Soviet and post-Soviet youth / Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya -- Arresting development : a brief history of Soviet cinema for children and adolescents / Alexandr Prokhorov -- Comforting creatures in children's cartoons / Birgit Beumers -- Juggernaut in drag : theater for Stalin's children / Boris Wolfson -- "Nice, instructive stories their psychology can grasp" : how to read post-Soviet Russian children's comics / Jose Alaniz -- Samuil Marshak : yesterday and today / Ben Hellman -- Lev Kassil : childhood as religion and ideology / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Pavel Bazhov's skazy : discovering the Soviet uncanny / Mark Lipovetsky -- A traditionalist in the land of innovators : the paradoxes of Sergei Mikhalkov / Elena Prokhorova -- Evgenii Shvarts's fairy tale dramas : theater, power, and the naked truth / Anja Tippner -- Invitation to a subversion : the playful literature of Grigorii Oster / Larissa Rudova
