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Scope and content: "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.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Baron, Nick, 1969- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Displaced children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 (Leiden : Brill, 2016 — ISBN 9789004175303; LCCN 2015048104)

Related Series:

Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands); v. 15

Subjects:

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

Soviet Union — Social conditions

Europe, Eastern — Social conditions — 20th century

1900-1999

Children — Social conditions

Children

Children and war

Social conditions

Refugee children

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JV8188 .D57 2017eb

ISBNs:

9789004310742
9004310746
9789004175303 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015049197

OCLC Numbers:

986180612

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4848150 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12946371