Displaced children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 : : ideologies, identities, experiences / / edited by Nick Baron.

• Superior document: Russian History and Culture, Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Baron, Nick, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 pages) :; illustrations.

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. Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 addresses 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, 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

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 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 -- Index.