The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children

By Serguei Alex Oushakine, professor of anthropology and Slavic languages, and Marina Balina, editors

Published March 12, 2021

Spotlighting three thematic threads – communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda – Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that young readers were supposed to appropriate.