A Hundred Years of Childhood: An Anthology of Russian Writing for Children, 1917-2017 - Hardcover

by Olga Bukhina (Editor), Kelly Herold (Editor), Andrea Lanoux (Editor)

This groundbreaking anthology presents a century of Russian writing for children-from the Soviet era to the present--bringing together classic and contemporary works, many translated into English for the first time, in a richly curated volume that is both academically informed and fully accessible to children, parents, and adult readers alike.

A Hundred Years of Childhood: An Anthology of Russian Writing for Children, 1917-2017 is the first of two volumes featuring works for children and teens in English translation, many for the first time. Volume One focuses on literature for younger children; it includes short pieces and excerpts from longer works, combining poetic and prose texts written by thirty-six renowned children's authors from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Eighteen translators contributed to the anthology, bringing a rich range of voices to the English-language texts. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers and students of Slavic studies, childhood studies, caregivers and parents of young children, and anyone interested in Russian children's literature and culture.

Author Biography

Olga Bukhina is a translator, writer, and children's literature specialist who has translated over forty books for children and teens. In addition, she is the co-author of Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017 (Brill-Schøningh 2022, Russian translation by Bukhina, 2024), as well as the author of Zhizn' i smert' Samye vaznye voprosy detskoi literatury (Life and Death: The Most Important Issues in Children's Literature, KompasGid 2024).

Kelly Herold is a professor of Russian at Grinnell College, where she teaches courses on Tolstoy, Nabokov, the Russian novel and short story, fairy tales, children's literature, as well as the Russian language. She is the co-author of Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017 (English, 2022; Russian translation by Olga Bukhina, 2024).

Andrea Lanoux holds the Elizabeth S. Kruidenier '48 endowed professorship in Slavic Studies at Connecticut College. Her research focuses on Russian children's literature (Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017, co-authored with Olga Bukhina and Kelly Herold), as well as women and gender in Slavic cultures (Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture, co-edited with Helena Goscilo, 2006). She teaches Russian language at all levels, as well as courses in Slavic studies, global studies, and an undergraduate research seminar on Ukraine.