Homeless. Wandering childhood in Soviet Russia (1917-1935)

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Among the horrors of the 1922th century, there is little that compares to the phenomenon of homeless children, as they called children and teenagers in post-revolutionary Russia, orphaned after the First World War and the Civil War. In XNUMX there were between six and seven million. Dirty, dressed in rags, they wandered alone or in groups through the cities and countryside in search of food, moved around the country, clinging to train cars, finding shelter from frost in the cellars of stations or inside garbage cans, 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 evidence and documents of that time, many of which were studied for the first time, to present a complete reconstruction of the fate of the main characters, whose realities of life sometimes seem to be fiction today. In 2022, the book was awarded the highest award of the Florence Literary Prize "Golden Florin" in the category "Non-Fiction".

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Publication language: Russian

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