{"id":56289,"date":"2013-07-18T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=56289"},"modified":"2013-07-18T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:59:24","slug":"the-golden-age-of-soviet-childrens-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/the-golden-age-of-soviet-childrens-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Age of Soviet Children\u2019s Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children’s Literature 1920\u201335: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times<\/em><\/a> is a stunning compendium of illustrations from the twenties and thirties. As Philip Pullman writes in his introduction,<\/p>\n

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In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, a group\u00a0of Russian poets and artists, among the greatest of the century, came together to create a new kind of book for children about to enter a Brave New World.\u00a0 These artists and writers dreamed of endless possibilities in a new world where children and grown-ups alike would be free from the bitterness of ignorance. For a time, when children\u2019s publications still escaped the scourge of state\u00a0censorship, their books became a last haven for learning, poetic irony, burlesque and laughter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n