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Title Displaced children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 : ideologies, identities, experiences / edited by Nick Baron
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
Series Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; volume 15
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 15.
Contents Placing the child in twentieth century history : contexts and framework / Nick Baron -- Orphaned testimonies : the place of displaced children in independent Latvia, 1918-26 / Aldis Purs -- Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child : the case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22 / Elizabeth White -- Memories of displacement : loss and reclamation of home/land in the narratives of Soviet child deportees of the 1930s / Michael Kaznelson and Nick Baron -- From hooligans to disciplined students : displacement, resettlement, and role modelling of Spanish Civil War children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 / Karl D. Qualls -- Making kin out of strangers : Soviet adoption during and after the Second World War / Rachel Faircloth Green -- Lost children : displaced children between nationalism and internationalism after the Second World War / Tara Zahra -- Child survivors in Polish Jewish collective memory after the Holocaust : the case of Undzere Kinder / Gabriel N. Finder -- Ethnicity, identity and imaginings of home in the memoirs of Lithuanian child deportees, 1941-53 / Tomas Balkelis -- Violence, childhood and the state : new perspectives on political practice and social experience in the twentieth century / Nick Baron
Summary "Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of children to be torn from their homes. Examines the powerful and tragic history of child displacement in this region and the efforts of states, international organizations and others to 're-place' uprooted, and often orphaned, children. By analysing the causes, character and course of child displacement, and examining through first-person testimonies the children's experiences and later memories, the chapters in this volume shed new light on twentieth-century nation-building and social engineering and the emergence of modern concepts and practices of statehood, children's rights and humanitarianism. Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Rachel Faircloth Green, Gabriel Finder, Michael Kaznelson, Aldis Purs, Karl D. Qualls, Elizabeth White, Tara Zahra"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2017)
Subject Refugee children -- Soviet Union -- History
Refugee children -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Refugee children -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Refugee children -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography
Children -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Children -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Children and war -- Soviet Union -- History
Children and war -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Children and war
Children -- Social conditions
Refugee children
Social conditions
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Baron, Nick, 1969- editor.
LC no. 2015049197
ISBN 9789004310742
9004310746