Devotees of Children's Reading

Abstract

In the article of Irina Arzamastseva (Moscow) investigates the early stages of the development in Russia of the scholarly approaches to children’s literature and childhood reading. The study places this subject into the dense social and political context of the 1880s and continues to follow the changing scene throughout the early 1930s. At the centre of Arzamastseva’s investigation are the activities and scholarship initiated by the Institute of Children’s Reading (1920–1923).