Oz Behind the Iron Curtain

In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored for many years.