Russian philology
Mid- and late Soviet children's books by
Eduard Uspensky, Yuri Entin, Viktor Dragunsky bear no signs of propaganda. In the 1970s
many of these books, as well as stories by foreign children's writers, were adapted into
animation.
Soviet Science fiction, inspired by scientistic revolution, industrialisation, and the country's
space pioneering, was flourishing, albeit in the limits allowed by censors. Early science
fiction authors, such as Alexander Belyayev, Grigory Adamov, Vladimir Obruchev, Aleksey
Nikolayevich Tolstoy, stuck to hard science fiction and regarded H. G. Wells and Jules Verne
as examples to follow. Two notable exclusions from this trend were Yevgeny Zamyatin,
author of dystopian novel We, and Mikhail Bulgakov, who, while using science fiction
instrumentary in Heart of a Dog, The Fatal Eggs and Ivan Vasilyevich, was interested in social
satire rather than scientistic progress. The two have had problems with publishing their books
in Soviet Union.