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Princeton University publishes online Soviet children books

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Princeton University publishes online Soviet children books


10.07.2017

Cotsen Children's Library
IVY League school has enabled access to photocopies of Soviet children books that were published in the first part of the 20th century, RIA Novosti reports. It is already the second bulk of online issues supported by the Princeton library staff.

The originals are stored in the rare books section of Cotsen Children's Library within the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Several dozens of Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Daniil Kharms books are already available online. There are rare books as well, like Vladimir Mayakovsky's verses furnished with illustrations by Georgian artist Kirill Zdanevich.

Nonetheless, there are many more books to publish since the collection comprises around 2000 issues.

As per library representatives, all the archive of Soviet books dated 1918-1953 will be available online eventually. Therefore, in several years internet users will get a unique opportunity to emerge into the process of development of the children Soviet literature verbal and visual language.

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