Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941
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Author_Boris B. Gorshkov
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child mortality rates
childhood poverty
early 20th century
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homlessness
NKVD
population
Russian Civil
Russian history
secret police
soviet food policies
starvation
USSR
War
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- ISBN 9781350098671
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 154 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941, Boris B. Gorshkov investigates the causes of this prolonged homelessness and starvation, the conditions faced by huge numbers of children, and the state’s unsuccessful efforts to solve these horrendous issues. Gorshkov pays particular attention to the critical role of the secret police (the VChKa and the NKVD) in this story and draws on a range of previously unused archival sources to reveal the full extent of the suffering of children in Russia at this time, as well as the interconnected causes behind it.
Boris B. Gorshkov is Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, USA. He is the author of Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin (Bloomsbury, 2018), Russia’s Factory Children, Society, and the State: Childhood, Apprenticeship and Law, 1800-1917 (2009) and A Life under Russian Serfdom: Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-68 (2005).
