Homeless. Vagabond Childhood in Soviet Russia (1917-1935)
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Homeless. Vagabond Childhood in Soviet Russia (1917-1935)
9.99 €
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Among the horrors of the twentieth century, there is little to compare with the phenomenon of the homeless, as children and adolescents orphaned after World War I and the Civil War were called in post-revolutionary Russia. In 1922, there were between six and seven million of them. Dirty, ragged, they wandered alone or in groups through towns and countryside in search of food, moving across the country, clinging to train cars, finding shelter from the cold in station basements or inside garbage cans, driven by hunger to acts of aggression and violence.
In the 1930s, the subject was censored by the state, which could not allow homeless children to exist in the "paradise" of Soviet society. In recent decades, homelessness has become a subject of historical research. But only Luciano Mecacci managed, thanks to direct testimonies and documents of the 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 honor of the Florence Literary Award "Golden Florin" in the category "Documentary Literature".
In the 1930s, the subject was censored by the state, which could not allow homeless children to exist in the "paradise" of Soviet society. In recent decades, homelessness has become a subject of historical research. But only Luciano Mecacci managed, thanks to direct testimonies and documents of the 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 honor of the Florence Literary Award "Golden Florin" in the category "Documentary Literature".
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