Lenin loves the little children

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

For those who enjoyed the plans for the reconstruction of Moscow, McGill University has a sample of children's books of the early Soviet era.

Among the many radical changes in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution, the transformation of children's books offers one of the most vivid reminders of the vast ambitions of the new social order. Building simultaneously upon the progressive legacy of the 19th century Russian literature and upon the dazzling tradition of Russian Futurism, a linguistic, literary and artistic movement that galvanized Russian intellectuals in the early decades of this century, post-Revolutionary publishing for children introduced a vast array of new measures that transmogrified this previously undistinguished genre.

(Via Foreword)