Karl D Qualls

Stalin's Niños

Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522759
• ISBN-10: 1487522754
• Artikelnr.: 55920078

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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