This volume examines the history of child displacement and the experiences of displaced children in Eastern Europe and Russia in the early and mid-twentieth century.
In the first half of the twentieth century countless millions of children across Eastern Europe and Russia were torn from their homes and families by wars, civil conflict, revolution and violent persecution.
This edited volume addresses the tragic history of child refugees in this region and the efforts of states, international organizations and charities to re-place these uprooted - often separated or orphaned - children.
By analysing the causes, character and course of children’s displacement and resettlement, their experiences and later memories, this volume sheds new light on twentieth-century nation-building, state practices and social engineering, on concepts of identity, belonging, family, trauma and memory, and on the emergence of modern discourses of children’s rights and humanitarianism.
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