Childhood in Russia 1890-1991 : A Social and Cultural History
Dissemination
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Publications:
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Ø Catriona Kelly
1.
Children’s
World: Growing Up in
2.
Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero
(London: Granta, 2005, paperback edition June 2006; a translation into Russian
is being prepared for Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie publishers, Moscow, 2007). For
a description of this book’s contents, information on Pavlik Morozov, and access to an inventory of the
secret police file on his murder, click here.
3.
‘“Malen’kie
grazhdane bol’shoi strany”: internationalizm, deti i sovetskaya
propaganda’, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 60 (2003), 218-51.
(also as: The Little Citizens of a Big Country: Childhood and
International Relations in the Soviet Union (Trondheim Studies on East
European Cultures and Societies, no. 8).
4.
‘“I Want to Be a Tractor Driver! Gender and Childhood
in Early Soviet Russia” [in Russian as "Khochu byt’ traktoristkoi!"
Gender i detstvo v dovoennoi sovetskoi Rossii], Sotsial’naya istoriya
2003, 385-410.
5.
‘Byt: Identity in Everyday Life’ in Simon
Franklin and Emma Widdis (eds.), National
Identity in Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.
149-167.
6.
‘“Shkol’nyi val’ts”: Povsednevnaya zhizn’ post-stalinskoi
sovetskoi shkoly’, Antropologicheskii forum 1
(2004), 104-55 (also in English as ‘The School Waltz’: The Daily Life of the
Post-Stalinist Russian Classroom’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture 1
(2004), 108-58). This article was also the subject of a round-table discussion
in Antropologicheskii forum 4 (2006)
(to be co-published in Forum for
Anthropology and Culture 3 (2006). For a list of informants cited
in this article click on the following links: English
version / Russian version.
7.
‘Grandpa Lenin and Uncle Stalin: Soviet Leader Cult
for Little Children’, in Polly Jones, Jan C. Behrends, and E. A. Rees
(eds.), The Leader Cult in Communist
Dictatorships (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).
8.
‘Riding the Magic Carpet: The Stalin Cult for Little
Children’, Slavic and East European Journal 49: 2 (2005), 199-224.
9.
‘“Thank
You for the Wonderful Book”: Soviet Child Readers and the Management of
Children’s Reading, 1950-1975’, Kritika 6:4 (2005), 717-51. (Also
in Russian in Russkii sbornik, 2007).
10.
‘Shaping the “Future Race”: Regulating the Daily
Life of Children in Early Soviet Russia’, Eric Naiman and Christina Kiaer,
Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia
(Indiana University Press, 2006).
11.
‘Popytka samoubiistva Mikhaila Zoshchenko’ (Mikhail
Zoshchenko’s Suicide Attempt, a publication of documents in TsGIA-SPb), Novoe
literaturnoe obozrenie 80 (2006).
12.
‘Sovetskii soyuz: rai dlya detei?’ Rossiiskii
gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet: seminar ‘Kul’tura detstva: normy,
tsennosti, praktiki’, http://childcult.rsuh.ru/article.html?id=58601.
Forthcoming in English (as: ‘The Soviet Union: A Paradise for Children?’) in
Francis Conte (ed.), L’URSS: un paradis
perdu?. Paris, 2008.
13.
‘“Good Night Little Ones”: Childhood in “The Last
Soviet Generation”’, in Stephen Lovell (ed.), Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave,
2007.
14.
‘Writing the History of Childhood in Soviet Russia:
Myths, Concepts, and Texts’ [in Russian as ‘Ob istorii detstva v Rossii:
Mify, kontseptsii, teksty’], Mir detstva, ed. Lorina Repina and others
(Moscow: forthcoming, 2007).
15.
‘A Joyful Soviet Childhood: Licensed Happiness for Little
Ones’, in Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko (eds.), Happiness Soviet Style (London: Anthem Books, 2008, forthcoming).
Work
is currently continuing on an anthology of autobiographies and archival
documents relevant to the history of childhood, which Professor Kelly is
preparing with Professor Vitaly Bezrogov (Moscow): Vzroslye
o detyakh i deti o sebe: istoriya russkogo detstva 1890-1991 v dokumentakh.
Work
has also been presented at a large number of British, European, and American
conferences and academic institutions (including the University of Chicago,
Northwestern University, Harvard University, University College London, the
University of Manchester, the University of Nottingham, the Sorbonne, NTNU
Trondheim, the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), St Petersburg,
in a keynote address at the Perspectives on Slavistics Conference, University of
Regensburg, at the International Conference on Slavonic and East European
Studies, Berlin, at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies in 2003, 2004, and 2006), at ‘Uchebnyi tekst v Sovetskom Soyuze’
(University of Culture, St Petersburg, December 2006), at the University of
Konstanz (‘Pis’mo i vlast’’, July 2007), and on the media. Professor
Kelly’s book on Pavlik Morozov was reviewed in most British national daily and
Sunday newspapers, and also in The
Economist, The New Statesman and Society, and The Irish Times, and she
appeared on Start the Week, on
Australian, Irish, and Italian radio stations, and on the BBC World Service to
talk about the book. She has also given interviews about the children project in
general to ‘Radio Liberty’ (in Russian).
Ø Stephen Lovell
1. Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007).
Ø Andy Byford
1. Making Education Soviet, 1917-1953 (special issue of History of Education, 35 (4-5), July-Sep 2006, co-edited with Polly Jones).
2. ‘Professional Cross-Dressing: Doctors in Education in Late Imperial Russia (1881-1917)’, The Russian Review, 65 (4), Oct 2006, 586-616.
3. ‘Psychology at High School in Late Imperial Russia (1881-1917)’, History of Education Quarterly 48 (2), April 2008, forthcoming.
4. ‘Turning Pedagogy into a Science: Teachers and Psychologists in Late Imperial Russia (1897-1917)’, Intelligentsia and Science in Russia and Abroad, 1860-1960 (Osiris 23, July 2008), eds. Michael Gordin, Alexei Kojevnikov and Karl Hall, Chicago: Chicago University Press, forthcoming.
Seminar and conference papers include:
1. ‘Psycho-Experiment in the Classroom: The Emergence of “Child Study” in Late Imperial Russia’, presented in Oxford (October 2005).
2. ‘Science of the Child in Late Imperial Russia: The Problem of Professional Cooperation’, presented in Paris (October 2005).
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Conferences:
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Ø ‘Generations in European History’
8-10 April 2005, New College,
For more information, please see the conference website.
Ø
’Study,
Study and Study!’ :
Theories and Practices of Education in Imperial and Soviet
14-16 May 2004,
For more information please see the conference website.
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