Russian philology
Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published as The Wizard of the Emerald City,
and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum. Other notable authors include
Nikolay Nosov, Lazar Lagin, Vitaly Bianki and Vladimir Suteev.
While fairy tales were relatively free from ideological oppression, the realistic children's
prose of the Stalin era was highly ideological and pursued the goal to raise children as patriots
and communists. A notable example is Arkady Gaydar, himself a Red Army commander
(colonel) in Russian Civil War: his stories and plays about Timur describe a team of young
pioneer volunteers who help the elderly and resist hooligans. There was a genre of hero
pioneer story, that bore some similarities with Christian genre of hagiography. In Khrushov
and Brezhnev times, however, the pressure lightened. Mid- and late Soviet children's books by
Eduard Uspensky, Yuri Entin, Viktor Dragunsky bear no signs of propaganda. In the 1970s
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