Monday, 16 November 2015

russian children's book

Teresa let me have a look at an old russian children's book she has, it was published in 1990; so quite a while after the revolution, but the illustrations still have elements of constructivism within them with the outlines of geometric shapes in the sky. Also the massive figures link back to the glorification of the soviet leaders, almost like gods - more so when Stalin came into power. But there are appearances of Lenin within the book which is interesting, as it is so long after he was in power. The book is completely in Russian so I have no idea what the story is or how Lenin fits in at all, but it was interesting to look at with beautiful illustrations. 

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