I would recommend Sergei Mihkalkhov's Disobedience Holiday and other children's stories. Soviet children's writing was very high quality and at par with what wa

I would recommend Sergei Mihkalkhov's Disobedience Holiday and other children's stories. Soviet children's writing was very high quality and at par with what was being written in the west. Perhaps the Soviet ones had better art too and were well printed and bound. Even the lush Soviet inks had a peculiarly inviting smell and eye-popping colour.