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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Children's Tragedy

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Children's Tragedy

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941, Boris B. Gorshkov investigates the causes of this prolonged homelessness and starvation, the conditions faced by huge numbers of children, and the state's unsuccessful efforts to solve these horrendous issues. Gorshkov pays particular attention to the critical role of the secret police (the VChKa and the NKVD) in this story and draws on a range of previously unused archival sources to reveal the full extent of the suffering of children in Russia at this time, as well as the interconnected causes behind it.

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Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Accommodation, Survival, Resistance

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

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Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Accommodation, Survival, Resistance

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

The peasantry accounted for the large majority of the Russian population during the Imperialist and Stalinist periods – it is, for the most part, how people lived. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin provides a comprehensive, realistic examination of peasant life in Russia during both these eras and the legacy this left in the post-Soviet era. The book paints a full picture of peasant involvement in commerce and local political life and, through Boris Gorshkov's original ecology paradigm for understanding peasant life, offers new perspectives on the Russian peasantry under serfdom and the emancipation. Incorporating recent scholarship, including Russian and non-Russian texts, along with classic studies, Gorshkov explores the complex interrelationships between the physical environment, peasant economic and social practices, culture, state policies and lord-peasant relations. He goes on to analyze peasant economic activities, including agriculture and livestock, social activities and the functioning of peasant social and political institutions within the context of these interrelationships. Further reading lists, study questions, tables, maps, primary source extracts and images are also included to support and enhance the text wherever possible. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin is the crucial survey of a key topic in modern Russian history for students and scholars alike.

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Russia's Factory Children

State, Society, and Law, 1800–1917

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

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Russia's Factory Children

State, Society, and Law, 1800–1917

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

At the height of the Russian industrial revolution, legions of children toiled in factories, accounting for fifteen percent of the workforce. Yet, by the end of the nineteenth century, their numbers had been greatly reduced, thanks to legislation that sought to protect the welfare of children for the first time. Russia's Factory Children presents the first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917, and profiles the laws that would establish children's labor rights. In this compelling study, Boris B. Gorshkov examines the daily lives, working conditions, hours, wages, physical risks, and health dangers to children who labored in Russian factories. He also chronicles the evolving cultural mores that initially welcomed child labor practices but later shunned them. Through extensive archival research, Gorshkov views the evolution of Russian child labor law as a reaction to the rise of industrialism and the increasing dangers of the workplace. Perhaps most remarkable is his revelation that activism, from the bourgeoisie, intellectuals, and children themselves, led to the conciliation of legislators and marked a progressive shift that would impact Russian society in the early twentieth century and beyond.

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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Children's Tragedy

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

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Children's Tragedy

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Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Accommodation, Survival, Resistance

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Accommodation, Survival, Resistance

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Russia's Factory Children

State, Society, and Law, 1800–1917

By: Boris B. Gorshkov

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State, Society, and Law, 1800–1917

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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Russia's Factory Children

Russia's Factory Children

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Russia's Factory Children

Russia's Factory Children

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