And Now My Soul Is Hardened
Author: Alan M. Ball
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1996-11-06
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0520206940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarfare, 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.