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About Polina Popova
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago (History department) writing a dissertation under Professor Jonathan Daly's guidance. I was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and spent my youth in Moscow (Russia), but I have lived in Chicago for the last 16 years. I have a philosophy and religious studies background, but I started studying history upon coming to the US. My current research is about the history of the Soviet children's literature of the Interwar period. More specifically, I am writing about biographies of Party Leaders and Red Army Commanders written for children under Stalin in the 1920s and the 1930s. I am also a children's book collector and enthusiast.
Polina Popova is a Ph.D. student at the history department of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
NBN Episodes hosted by Polina:
May 13, 2024
A Woman's Empire
A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia (U Toronto Press, 2023) explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively…
March 17, 2024
Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union
Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals …
December 15, 2023
Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution
Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution (Hackett, 2023) is a major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, from World War I to cons…
September 16, 2023
Word Play
Ainsley Morse's book Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature (Northwestern UP, 2021) traces the history of the relationship be…
March 20, 2023
Picturing the Page
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Leni…
December 23, 2022
Translating England into Russian
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view o…