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Trauma and Pathology: Normative Crises and the Child Population in Late Tsarist Russia and the Early Soviet Union, 1904-1924

Byford, Andy

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Focusing on the major sociopolitical upheavals of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Russia, this article examines the key contexts in which children became objects of mass intervention in the midst and aftermath of a succession of wars and revolutions. It ties together the following cases in the history of childhood in Russia: (1) the “epidemic” of child suicides diagnosed in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution; (2) public concern over the psychological effect of war on children during the First World War; and (3) the early Soviet efforts to deal with the problem of mass child “delinquency” in the aftermath of the revolutionary civil war.

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Byford, A. (2016). Trauma and Pathology: Normative Crises and the Child Population in Late Tsarist Russia and the Early Soviet Union, 1904-1924. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 9(3), 450-469. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2016.0070

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 14, 2015
Online Publication Date Sep 1, 2016
Publication Date Sep 1, 2016
Deposit Date Aug 20, 2015
Publicly Available Date Sep 13, 2016
Journal Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Print ISSN 1941-3599
Electronic ISSN 1941-3599
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 9
Issue 3
Pages 450-469
DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2016.0070

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