title: “A Threat to the Childhood”: Civil War in the Pyrenees in the Coverage of Soviet Periodicals for Children
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metadata.value: Ilyukha, O. P.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-12T13:34:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-12T13:34:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Ilyukha O. P. ‘“A Threat to the Childhood”: Civil War in the Pyrenees in the Coverage of Soviet Periodicals for Children’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 3, 2023, pp. 721–744. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.312 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44234
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metadata.value: In 1936–1939, the Spanish Civil War was a hot topic used for military-patriotic upbringing and political
  socialization of children. This article shows has the events in Spain were portrayed in periodicals for preschoolers and primary schoolchildren, including texts and visualizations. While the official perspective of the Spanish
  events in the USSR was dictated by the Party, children’s optics was tuned using its own means and methods,
  customized to the psychology of this age group. The article discloses the goals of exploiting this topic in the Soviet
  child-targeting discourse, reveals the most common plotlines, pinpoints the specific emotion-inciting tricks.
  In propaganda work with children, the extreme polarization of good and evil was used, embodied in two political
  forces — fascists and republicans. The theme was adapted for children through the extensive use of peer images,
  central among which were child heroes and child martyrs. The image of the Spanish child-hero corresponded to
  the Soviet concept of a child walking in the forefront of society. At the same time, attention was focused on the difficulties
  experienced by the children of Spain, who experienced a “threat to childhood”, which fed the ideologeme
  of “happy Soviet childhood”, the exclusivity of Soviet children. The participation of powerful artistic forces in the
  information campaign resulted in the construction of a sublimely romantic image of Spain and the Spaniards with
  an aura of inflexibility and fortitude, corresponding to the ideal of a Soviet person. There was a feeling of connection
  between the Soviet and Spanish loci of heroism and people of heroic professions, among which pilots and
  border guards came to the fore. The figures selected to create the pantheon of Civil War heroes and the ways to
  fit the images of Franco and Stalin into the context are demonstrated.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research is a part of state assignment of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 13; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: civil war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Spain
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: children
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: periodicals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: children’s literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: military-patriotic education
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “A Threat to the Childhood”: Civil War in the Pyrenees in the Coverage of Soviet Periodicals for Children
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metadata.value: Article
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