Children’s Book as a Subject of Influence Struggle (late 1940s – early 1950s)

Abstract

The article focuses on the ways the Komsomol and the Young Pioneer Organization, the Ministry of Education, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, the Committee on Children’s Literature of the Union of Soviet Writers impacted on Detgiz (the State publishing house for children’s literature) in the postwar period (late 1940s – early 1950s). It examines what requirements these institutions imposed on children’s books and how Detgiz tried to meet them. This study is based on archival materials.

Keywords: Detgiz, children’s literature edition in the Soviet Union, pedagogy and children’s books, criticism of publishing activity, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the House of Children’s Books