Russian Diary for 2010

[Evgeny Steiner]

"...created a benign and fabulous alternative world."

Benign? More often than not it was far from that. In many cases it was quite
deliberately a powerful tool for indoctrination of radical ideas (either
aesthetic or political).

Evgeny Steiner

-- 
Professor Evgeny Steiner
Senior Research Associate
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
SOAS, University of London
Brunei Gallery, B401
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>wrote:

> A RUSSIAN DIARY for 2010
>
> Through the Œ20s and early Œ30s, in the early Soviet Union, there flowered
> briefly  a golden age of children‚s books. Great artists and writers,
> often prohibited from other work, created a benign and fabulous
> alternative world.  It was a world made for children, where learning went
> hand-in-hand with enchantment.  The Redstone Press Diary for 2010 gives
> us, every day, a glimpse of that magical domain.
>
> Artists and writers include El Lissitzky, V. Mayakovsky,  S. Marshak, V.
> Lebedev and K. Chukovsky.
>
> The spiral-bound desk diary (245mm x 167mm) has a week-to-view with an
> image for each week of the year. It also contains two pockets, an address
> book section, and a tale by Andrey Platonov translated by Robert Chandler.
> ISBN 978 1870003 31 5 (£14.95 inc VAT) from all good bookshops or
> www.redstonepress.co.uk or www.theredstoneshop.com
>
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