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The Resource Sacrificing childhood : children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war, Julie K. deGraffenried

Sacrificing childhood : children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war, Julie K. deGraffenried

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"During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffering was far from over. The prewar Stalinist vision of a 'happy childhood' nurtured by a paternal, loving state had given way, out of necessity. What replaced it--the dictate that children be prepared to sacrifice everything, including childhood itself--created a generation all too familiar with deprivation, violence, and death. The experience of these children, and the role of the state in shaping their narrative, are the subject of this book, which fills in a critical but neglected chapter in the Soviet story and in the history of World War II. In Sacrificing Childhood, Julie deGraffenried chronicles the lives of the Soviet wartime children and the uses to which they were put--not just as combatants or workers in factories and collective farms, but also as fodder for propaganda, their plight a proof of the enemy's depredations. Not all Soviet children lived through the war in the same way; but in the circumstances of a child in occupied Belarus or in the Leningrad blockade, a young deportee in Siberia or evacuee in Uzbekistan, deGraffenried finds common threads that distinguish the child's experience of war from the adult's. The state's expectations, however, were the same for all children, as we see here in children's mass media and literature and the communications of party organizations and institutions, most notably the Young Pioneers, whose relentless wartime activities made them ideal for the purposes of propaganda. The first in-depth study of where Soviet children fit into the history of the war, Sacrificing Childhood also offers an unprecedented view of the state's changing expectations for its children, and how this figured in the nature and direction of post-war Soviet society"--
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xiv, 248 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • The children's war
  • Mobilizing the young : war work for Soviet children
  • Defining the heroic : values for Soviet children at war
  • The art of conflict : images of children and for children at war
  • The "happy childhood" resumed? : or, the return of the Elka
  • Conclusion
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9780700620029
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Sacrificing childhood : children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war
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Sacrificing childhood
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children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war
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Julie K. deGraffenried
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Language
eng
Summary
"During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffering was far from over. The prewar Stalinist vision of a 'happy childhood' nurtured by a paternal, loving state had given way, out of necessity. What replaced it--the dictate that children be prepared to sacrifice everything, including childhood itself--created a generation all too familiar with deprivation, violence, and death. The experience of these children, and the role of the state in shaping their narrative, are the subject of this book, which fills in a critical but neglected chapter in the Soviet story and in the history of World War II. In Sacrificing Childhood, Julie deGraffenried chronicles the lives of the Soviet wartime children and the uses to which they were put--not just as combatants or workers in factories and collective farms, but also as fodder for propaganda, their plight a proof of the enemy's depredations. Not all Soviet children lived through the war in the same way; but in the circumstances of a child in occupied Belarus or in the Leningrad blockade, a young deportee in Siberia or evacuee in Uzbekistan, deGraffenried finds common threads that distinguish the child's experience of war from the adult's. The state's expectations, however, were the same for all children, as we see here in children's mass media and literature and the communications of party organizations and institutions, most notably the Young Pioneers, whose relentless wartime activities made them ideal for the purposes of propaganda. The first in-depth study of where Soviet children fit into the history of the war, Sacrificing Childhood also offers an unprecedented view of the state's changing expectations for its children, and how this figured in the nature and direction of post-war Soviet society"--
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deGraffenried, Julie K
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940.5347083
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Modern war studies
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  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Children and war
  • Children and war
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Sacrificing childhood : children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war, Julie K. deGraffenried
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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text
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rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction -- The children's war -- Mobilizing the young : war work for Soviet children -- Defining the heroic : values for Soviet children at war -- The art of conflict : images of children and for children at war -- The "happy childhood" resumed? : or, the return of the Elka -- Conclusion
Control code
FIEb17638926
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiv, 248 pages
Isbn
9780700620029
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
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  • FIE
  • (OCoLC)880501097
Label
Sacrificing childhood : children and the Soviet state in the great patriotic war, Julie K. deGraffenried
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction -- The children's war -- Mobilizing the young : war work for Soviet children -- Defining the heroic : values for Soviet children at war -- The art of conflict : images of children and for children at war -- The "happy childhood" resumed? : or, the return of the Elka -- Conclusion
Control code
FIEb17638926
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiv, 248 pages
Isbn
9780700620029
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
  • FIE
  • (OCoLC)880501097

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