BOOK REVIEW OF «GROWING OUT OF COMMUNISM. RUSSIAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS, 1991–2017». A. LANOUX, K. HEROLD AND O. BUKHINA. PADERBORN: BRILL SCHÖNINGH, 2021

Abstract

The review of “Growing Out of Communism” highlights the main steps in the development of Russian children’s literature after the emergence of the market-driven publishing industry in 1991 and the creation of new small publishing houses in the 2000s. By offering a comprehensive analysis of the factors which led to the rise of a new literary production, of the struggles to find its own place and recognition within the Russian society, but also of the link with the Soviet and Russian literary tradition, the book provides a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Russian children’s literature. Keywords: Russian children’s literature, mass-market books, boutique publishing houses, young adults and children’s fiction, Soviet canon