Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, children’s books have become an explicit battleground in domestic culture wars – simultaneously instrumentalised as tools of patriotic mobilisation and subjected to intensified censorship that has made even naming the conflict legally risky. This dissertation examines how war and war-caused displacement are represented in contemporary Russian children’s and young adult literature published since 2014, tracing the textual and visual strategies through which authors and publishers navigate, resist, or reproduce official narratives under conditions of self-censorship and securitisation.

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Contact: Ekaterina Shatalova, eshatalova@cas.au.dk

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