Lost to the State : : Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East / / Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill.
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of vulnerable ‘social orphans’, or children who have living relatives but grow up in res...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Transliteration
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I BECOMING A SOCIAL ORPHAN
- Chapter 1 A Brief History of Family Policy in Russia
- Chapter 2 The State as a Co-Parent
- Chapter 3 State and Family: Tilting the Balance of Power
- Chapter 4 Parents Overwhelmed by the State
- Chapter 5 Norms and Deviance
- PART II BEING A SOCIAL ORPHAN
- Chapter 6 The State as a Sole Parent
- Chapter 7 The World of Social Orphans
- PART III POST-SOVIET OR SOVIET? SELF-PERPETUATION OF THE SYSTEM
- Chapter 8 The Continuing Soviet Legacy: Paradoxes of Change and Continuity
- Chapter 9 The Post-Soviet Case in a Wider Context
- Conclusion
- EPILOGUE
- Appendix 1 List of Documents Supplied to the Court by the Guardianship Department and the Baby Home in Maria’s Cas
- Appendix 2 Reminiscences of Two ‘Bad’ Childhoods
- References
- Glossary
- Index