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work by Frolov
Also known as: “Chto k chemu”

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children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Russia/Soviet Union

    …finest teenage novels, Vadim Frolov’s Chto k chemu (Eng. trans., What It’s All About, 1965), is quite untouched by dogma of any kind. Soviet children’s literature, and especially its vast body of popularized science and technology for the young, however, was in general governed by the ideals of socialist realism,…

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