family discontinuity, social orphanhood, and residential care in the Russian Far East
First Statement of Responsibility
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Berghahn Books
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xvi, 383 pages) : illustrations, map
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
pt. 1. Becoming a social orphan --;pt. 2. Being a social orphan --;pt. 3. Post-Soviet or Soviet? Self-perpetuation of the system.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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...
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Children -- Institutional care -- Russia (Federation)