And now my soul is hardened :
Ball, Alan M.
And now my soul is hardened : abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 / Alan M. Ball. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (xxi, 335 pages) : illustrations. - SCAN project .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
A Note on Renamed Cities -- Introduction: Tragedy's Offspring -- 1. Children of the Street -- 2. Beggars, Peddlers, and Prostitutes -- 3. From You I Can Expect No Pity -- 4. Children of the State -- 5. Primeval Chaos -- 6. Florists and Professors -- 7. Progress and Frustration -- Conclusion: On the Road to Life?
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.
9780520918399 0520918398 0585048320 9780585048321 9780520080102 0520080106
Abandoned children--History.--Soviet Union
Abandoned children.
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV887.S58 / B35 1994eb
362.7/6/094709041
And now my soul is hardened : abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 / Alan M. Ball. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (xxi, 335 pages) : illustrations. - SCAN project .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
A Note on Renamed Cities -- Introduction: Tragedy's Offspring -- 1. Children of the Street -- 2. Beggars, Peddlers, and Prostitutes -- 3. From You I Can Expect No Pity -- 4. Children of the State -- 5. Primeval Chaos -- 6. Florists and Professors -- 7. Progress and Frustration -- Conclusion: On the Road to Life?
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.
9780520918399 0520918398 0585048320 9780585048321 9780520080102 0520080106
Abandoned children--History.--Soviet Union
Abandoned children.
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV887.S58 / B35 1994eb
362.7/6/094709041