Pochta: Circulation, Delivery, Return
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this excerpt from Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading Under Lenin and Stalin (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Megan Swift examines the history of two poems by S. Ya. Marshak’s Mail (1927) and Wartime Mail (1944), focusing not only on the transformation of subjects and images, but also on the visual component of the publications. The author traces how the story of mail, created in the late 1920s, gets a new sounding in the poetic continuation created in wartime. Marshak’s books link generations and mediate between the past and the present. Illustrations by Mikhail Tsekhanovskii, created in 1927, and illustrations by Adrian Ermolaev in 1944 offer different interpretations of the plot and the image of the characters, coinciding with the ideas of the poems. Sequelization is seen here as a technique capable of giving new meanings to already well-known stories by referring the reader to the original text. The author hypothesizes that the first readers of Mail of 1927, and wartime children readers whose parents were already familiar with this book by Marshak, were united by these two works and their visual readings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.147 | 0.043 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".