Ebook: A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union

A Modern History of Russian Childhood examines the changes and continuities in ideas about Russian childhood during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It looks at how children were thought about and treated in Russian and Soviet culture, and what this tells us about the societies they lived in, and how radical social and economic changes affected these children. Fundamentally, the book reveals what it was like to grow up Russian in the modern age.
Focusing mainly on children in families and kinship groups, telling us much about Russian/Soviet family life in the process, Elizabeth White combines theoretical ideas about childhood with examples of real, lived experiences of children to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. The book also offers a useful synthesis of a wide range of secondary sources in English, Russian and French, whilst utilizing various textual and visual primary sources as part of the discussion.
This book is key reading for anyone wanting to understand the history of modern Russia from a social perspective or the nature and history of childhood in modern Europe.