Stalin''s Ninos - Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in Soviet Union, 1937

Using multiple languages, numerous archives, press reports, oral histories, letters, and memoirs, Stalin’s Niños investigates the well-resourced boarding schools designed specifically for nearly 3,000 child refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

List of contents

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. "Like Reaching Paradise after Being in Hell": The Turbulent Transition from Spain to the USSR
2. "We, the Spanish, Were like an Island": Boarding Schools and Personnel as Loci and Models of Care and Soviet Values
3. Obuchenie: Classroom Instruction, Patriotism, and the Instilling of Soviet Values
4. Vospitanie: Kul’turnost’ and Kruzhki as Techniques of Normative Behaviour Training
5. Becoming Soviet in Traumatic Times: Life in War, 1939-1944
6. No Longer Children: Transitioning to Adulthood during War and Reconstruction
Conclusion: Life after Stalin
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Karl D. Qualls is the John B. Parsons Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Dickinson College.

Summary

Using multiple languages, numerous archives, press reports, oral histories, letters, and memoirs, Stalin’s Niños investigates the well-resourced boarding schools designed specifically for nearly 3,000 child refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: Karl D Qualls, Karl D. Qualls
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781487503581
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0358-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Russland, Europäische Geschichte, Südeuropa, EDUCATION / History, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal