CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Babayeva, Maya |
|---|---|
| Title | Working Together: Translated and Original Children's Literature in the Soviet Union, 1930s - 1950s |
| Summary | The purpose of literature in Soviet Central Asia was to integrate its population into the Soviet project. Despite that, the historiography of Soviet Central Asia’s literary experiences is a newly developing branch of study and so far remains limited, while children’s literature in Soviet Central Asia is a practically unstudied field. This thesis looks at the case of Soviet literature in Turkmenistan, specifically at the endeavor to bring the new Soviet reality into Turkmen life through the medium of the newly created Soviet Turkmen children’s literature. The thesis addresses the process of creation of children’s literature in Soviet Turkmenistan from its origins in the early 1930s till the early 1950s. The goal of the thesis is to look at one aspect of how the program of creating Soviet Turkmen children’s literature happened in the Turkmen context of the early Soviet rule and what its literary results represented. The process of creating children’s literature in Soviet Turkmenistan was publicized in the Turkmen press. A study of press articles reveals the importance of translated and original literature in the development of Turkmen children’s literature. An overview of the translated children’s literature shows which themes were found proper for socialization of Turkmen children into the Soviet Union. A comparison with the original children’s literature reveals that it did not engage in the same themes. The original literature was concerned with educating readers on the value of literacy, hygiene, and building friendships. Despite the apparent disparity, the translated and original Turkmen children’s literature served the same purpose of integrating Turkmen children into the Soviet world. The former did it by propagating themes familiar from Russian Soviet children’s literature such as patriotism and socialist construction, while the latter established the foundation for the new Soviet realities of universal education, personal hygiene, gender equality, and other. |
| Supervisor | Supervisor - Professor Marsha Siefert; Second Reader - Professor Karl Hall |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/babayeva_maya.pdf |
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