family discontinuity, social orphanhood, and residential care in the Russian Far East
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill.
New York
Berghahn Books
2010
(xvi, 383 pages) : illustrations, map
pt. 1. Becoming a social orphan --;pt. 2. Being a social orphan --;pt. 3. Post-Soviet or Soviet? Self-perpetuation of the system.
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. That is why the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of social orphansA" or children left without parental care,A" children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care...
Children -- Institutional care -- Russia (Federation)