"Homeless. Wandering childhood in Soviet Russia. 1917-1935."
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Few horrors of the 20th century can compare to the phenomenon of the homeless, as children and teenagers orphaned after the First World War and the Civil War were called in post-revolutionary Russia. In 1922, there were between six and seven million of them. Dirty, dressed in rags, they wandered alone or in groups through cities and rural areas in search of food, traveled across the country, clinging to train carriages, finding shelter from the cold in station basements or inside garbage bins, driven by hunger to acts of aggression and violence. In the 1930s, this topic was censored by the state, which could not allow the existence of homeless children in the "paradise" of Soviet society. In recent decades, homelessness has become the subject of historical research. But only Luciano Mecacci managed, thanks to direct testimonies and documents of that time, many of which were studied for the first time, to present a complete reconstruction of the fates of the main characters, the realities of whose lives today sometimes seem like fiction. In 2022, the book was awarded the highest prize of the Florentine literary award "Golden Florin" in the category of "Documentary Literature".
Author:
Author:Luciano Mechachi
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20x12.5x1.8 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-89059-499-0
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