Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union

Name: Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet UnionResidential Childcare, 195891\nAuthor(s): Mirjam Galley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367694692, 978-0367694692\nSynopsis\nThis book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting children whose parents could not or did not take care of them, as well as children with disabilities, the system disproportionately involved children from socially marginal and poor families. It highlights how the system aimed to raise these children from the margins of society and transform them into healthy, happy, useful Soviet citizens, imbued with socialist values. The book also outlines how the system fitted in to Khrushchevs reforms and social order policies, where the emphasis was on .