| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 335 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SCAN project
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abandoned children -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Abandoned children. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ball, Alan M. And now my soul is hardened. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994 0520080106 (DLC) 92046236 (OCoLC)27266737 |
| ISBN |
9780520918399 (electronic book) |
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0520918398 (electronic book) |
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0585048320 (electronic book) |
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9780585048321 (electronic book) |
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9780520080102 |
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0520080106 |
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0520080106 (alkaline paper) |
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0520206940 |
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