The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy by Gorshkov, Boris B.

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350415690)

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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy by Gorshkov, Boris B.

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy

$39.95
The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy by Gorshkov, Boris B.

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Boris B. Gorshkov
ISBN-10: 1350415693
ISBN-13: 9781350415690
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d
By Boris B. Gorshkov
By Boris B. Gorshkov
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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).

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