Russian Folk Tales Book

The Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s exchanged literature and books with India to a great extent in order to propagate its Communist Propaganda especially during the period of the Cold war, when the Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union, tried to bring in more countries under its fold. However with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, such cultural exchanges came to a halt. A large part of this cultural exchange was formed by Russian folk tales of the pre-communist era with elements of magical realism, fantasies and stories of the czar, princes, peasants and fairies. Yet, these had subtle political undertones to them. These were translated into English and other Indian languages and sent to India. One of the major centres where these books were sold was Kolkata. The image of the book below is an English translated edition printed in Moscow in 1979. It has been kept and read by two generations in the family of the contributor.

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