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When Arkadii Gaidar’s novella Timur and His Team was published in 1940, it gained instant critical acclaim, readers’ recognition, and was included in school reading lists for future generations. While the story cleverly combines an entertaining narrative of children’s adventures with political ideology, its main focus is on the character of Timur who embodies an ideal Soviet child and a talented young...
The present article draws attention to “post‐Soviet commodity tales,” a subgenre of adolescent girl fiction that provides a narrative of personal success for girls willing to learn the tricks of managed beauty, fashion, consumer literacy, and other lessons of femininity. Since these tales are written almost exclusively by women authors for the consumption by young girls, they vividly demonstrate a...
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