20th century russian history
20th century russian society
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abandoned children
Author_Alan M. Ball
beggars
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childrens studies
economic conditions
epidemics
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famine
government
high divorce rates
homelessness
ideology
kgb
lost children
peddlers
prostitutes
rehabilitation
single parent families
social conditions
socialism
socialist generation
soviet children
soviet history
soviet russia
soviet society
soviet union
state policy
thieves
waifs
war
warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780520206946
- Weight: 635g
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strategies the government used to remove them from the streets lest they threaten plans to mold a new socialist generation. The "rehabilitation" of these youths and the results years later are an important lesson in Soviet history.
Alan M. Ball is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University and the author of Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929 (California, 1987).
