Thread: Russian fairytales - pre 1991

Originally Posted by Calandra

Were there books you could buy of these fairytales during that time in Russia?

Yes, traditional Russian fairy tales were very popular in the Soviet Union. (Fairy tales of other ethnic groups of the Soviet Union and foreign ones weren’t unknown too).

Originally Posted by Calandra

Would there by any oral tradition of passing down from grandparent to child, for example?

I am by no means an expert, but I suppose that the oral tradition in its classical form became nearly extinct and ousted by the book tradition in the beginning of the 20th century with the coming of universal literacy.