Books by Erika Haber

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.

This work covers the practice of magical realism in the 1970s to 1980s in the Soviet Union. It shows how two non-Slavic Soviet authors, writing in Russian, successfully employed magical realism in rebellion against the prescription of national conformity in art.