Preferred Citation: Ball, Alan M. And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft700007p9/


 
Primeval Chaos

Institutions

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Children and staff at a detdom established with resources from the secret police in the Kuban’.
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A lesson in the secret police’s labor commune at Bolshevo.
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Reading at an unidentified institution for besprizornye.
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A clinic for juvenile cocaine users from the street.
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A carpentry workshop at an institution for "difficult" children in Ivanovo-Voznesensk.
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Scene from an excursion to the Crimea undertaken in 1930 by Anton Makarenko’s Dzerzhinskii labor commune. The commune’s photography club produced the pictures.
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Scene from an excursion to the Crimea undertaken in 1930 by Anton Makarenko’s Dzerzhinskii labor commune. The commune’s photography club produced the pictures.
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Another group of Makarenko’s charges on excursion in the Crimea (year unspecified).
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Residents of Makarenko’s Gorky colony (at Trepke) working on a ditch used to store potatoes.
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Members of the Dzerzhinskii commune clearing the road to their institution.
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Residents posing in the Gorky colony’s courtyard (at Kuriazh).
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Pupils in one of the Dzerzhinskii commune’s classrooms.

Primeval Chaos
 

Preferred Citation: Ball, Alan M. And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft700007p9/