DISPLACED CHILDREN IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN

Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of children to be torn from their homes. Nurturing the Nation examines the powerful and tragic history of child displacement in this region and the efforts of states, international organizations and others to ‘re-place’ uprooted, and often orphaned, children. By analysing the causes, character and course of child displacement, and examining through first-person testimonies the children’s experiences and later memories, the chapters in this volume shed new light on twentieth-century nation-building and social engineering and the emergence of modern concepts and practices of statehood, children’s rights and humanitarianism.

Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Rachel Faircloth Green, Gabriel Finder, Michael Kaznelson, Aldis Purs, Karl D. Qualls, Elizabeth White, Tara Zahra

In Europa de Est si Rusia, in prima jumatate a secolului al XX-lea, conflictele si violentele aparute in urma razboaielor straine si civile, a ocupatiei, a revolutiilor, a restructurarii sociale si etnice si a persecutiilor rasiale au facut ca nenumarate milioane de copii sa fie smulse din casele lor. Nurturing the Nation examineaza istoria puternica si tragica a stramutarii copiilor in aceasta regiune si eforturile statelor, organizatiilor internationale si ale altor persoane de a „reloca” copii dezradacinati si adesea orfani.