Siege of Leningrad: How Children's Literature Participated in the Creation of an Image of the Heroic City

Student: Tulchinskaya Kira

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The research introduces the construction of an image of Leningrad during the Siege, blockade that took place during the Second World War. The study aims to represent the ways through which children's literature depicted the siege. In the present study, the issue under scrutiny is the representation of a heroism in children’s books. While the significance of the cultural history of the Siege was uttered by numerous of studies, to the present day none of those said studies were dedicated to looking at this problem through that type of posing the question.

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