GALLEY, MIRJAM.
BUILDING COMMUNISM AND POLICING DEVIANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION;RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE, 1958-91 [electronic resource]. - ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies .
This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting children whose parents could not or did not take care of them, as well as children with disabilities, the system disproportionately involved children from socially marginal and poor families. It highlights how the system aimed to raise these children from the margins of society and transform them into healthy, happy, useful Soviet citizens, imbued with socialist values. The book also outlines how the system fitted in to Khrushchev's reforms and social order policies, where the emphasis was on monitoring and controlling society without the recourse to direct repression and terror, and how continuity with this period was maintained even as the rest of Soviet society changed significantly.
1000335445 9781000335446 9781003141921 1003141927 9781000335507 100033550X 9781000335569 1000335569
10.4324/9781003141921 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
Children--Institutional care--Soviet Union.
Social control--Soviet Union.
Social adjustment in children--Soviet Union.
Communism--Soviet Union.
HV866.S65
362.732094709045
BUILDING COMMUNISM AND POLICING DEVIANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION;RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE, 1958-91 [electronic resource]. - ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies .
This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting children whose parents could not or did not take care of them, as well as children with disabilities, the system disproportionately involved children from socially marginal and poor families. It highlights how the system aimed to raise these children from the margins of society and transform them into healthy, happy, useful Soviet citizens, imbued with socialist values. The book also outlines how the system fitted in to Khrushchev's reforms and social order policies, where the emphasis was on monitoring and controlling society without the recourse to direct repression and terror, and how continuity with this period was maintained even as the rest of Soviet society changed significantly.
1000335445 9781000335446 9781003141921 1003141927 9781000335507 100033550X 9781000335569 1000335569
10.4324/9781003141921 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
Children--Institutional care--Soviet Union.
Social control--Soviet Union.
Social adjustment in children--Soviet Union.
Communism--Soviet Union.
HV866.S65
362.732094709045