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We do not yet have much information specificaly about children's play in Russia. Here we are collecting information on ganes and toys but do not yet have much information on Russian play. One of our major sources of iunbformztion is the photographic record. A ptroblem here is that the photographic record in Soviet Russia is not as large as one might think for such a large industrialized country. The reason for this is so few Russian citizens had cameras to take family snapshots. Despite the claims of a worker and peasant paradice, it is in the Soviet Union that workers and farmers did receive earnings afording families to have private cameras or afford film and processing. The reason is the ineffiencies of Communist enterprises and the huge military expenses. So most families they could not aford to take large numbers of snapshots. Much of what we have are studio portraits and photographers in parrks and other tourist attractions. This began to change a little by the 1960s a economic conditions improved, but never to the level of workers in the West. We do not yet have much information on many on the games played by Russian children, Russian children played were the same as those played in Europe. Presumably there were some destinctive Russian games, although we are not yet familar with them. We note that some Russian boys wore school uniforms. After school boys took off their uniforms to put on their play clothes. Of course climate is an important factor in Russia. The Summer season is relatively short which means that play clothes had to include cold weather items.
Many Russian prks had some play ground equipment, nut generallu only bzsic eqyupment. The same was the case at school. Here we see an unidentified Russian boy enjoying a home-made swing during the early 2000s in rural Russia.
We do not yet have much information on many on the games played by Russian children. As far as we know, Russian children played many of the same games as those played in Europe, espcially northern Europe. Presumably there were some destinctive Russian games, although we are not yet familar with them. We suspect that a popular game in Russia was war. Role playing games like war (cops and robbers, and cowboys and indians) are popular with boys around the war, although in recent years mothers in particular and to discourage them an children's activiies are more organized than they once were. We suspect that Russian boys also played war, espcially after World War II given the importance of the War in the national ethos. In the schools, teachers promoted coopertive ply with the youngrr children -- as poart of the effoirt to create the new Soviet man. Ti what affect this affected unsdiprrbised play, we are not sure. We notice some photographs that suggest that the boys are plying war, alyhough we do not see toy wepons. We are not even sure that the Soviet toy industry produced toy guns which used to be a mainstay of boys' toys in the West.
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