Books about Russian orphans and homeless children


 

Alan M. Ball - And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned
Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930
an excellent book on homeless children in the given
period.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-Now-My-Soul-Is-Hardened-Abandoned-Children-in-Soviet-Russia-1918-1930/dp/0520206940/sr=1-23/qid=1157323707/ref=sr_1_23/026-3088569-4360448?ie=UTF8&s=books



René Bosewitz - Waifdom in the Soviet Union: Features
of the Sub-culture and Re-education
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waifdom-Soviet-Foreign-Language-Studies/dp/3820410651/sr=1-3/qid=1164829496/ref=sr_1_3/202-1863766-0392609?ie=UTF8&s=books

Boris Krivoshei, Ravilya Fastova-Morozova -
Oboidyennye zhizn'yu
a very good book about children and people with
disabilities in Russia. It's a relatively new book.

Jenny Brine, Maureen Perrie, Andrew Sutton - Home,
School and Leisure in the Soviet Union
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-School-Leisure-Soviet-Union/dp/0043350402/sr=11-1/qid=1164829536/ref=sr_11_1/202-1863766-0392609

Judith Harwin - Children of the Russian State: 1917-95
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Russian-State-Judith-Harwin/dp/185628686X/sr=1-2/qid=1164829554/ref=sr_1_2/202-1863766-0392609?ie=UTF8&s=books

Ruben David Gonzalez Gal'ego - Beloye na chernom
written by an adult looking back on his time living in
an orphanage for disabled children in late 1970s -
1980s Russia.
link to the English translation called 'White on
Black':
http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Black-Ruben-Gallego/dp/015101227X/sr=1-3/qid=1164829576/ref=sr_1_3/202-1863766-0392609?ie=UTF8&s=books

Ruben David Gonzalez Gal'ego - Ya sizhu na beregu.
same author as above. similar theme.


Anton Semyonovich Makarenko - Pedagogicheskaya poema
a book written between in the late 1920s and 1930s by
a director of a children's colony.

Aleksei Panteleev, Grigorii Belykh - Respublika SHKID
a book written in 1926 by a couple of children who
lived in an orphanage in the period.