{"title":"Childhood and Youth in the Soviet Union under Stalin","authors":"Mirjam Galley","doi":"10.1353/kri.2023.0007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the Soviet Union, youth was central to official ideology and the effort to build socialism in the 1920s and 1930s: young people made up a large proportion of Soviet society, and children were seen as malleable, easily formable into socialist people; they signified the bright socialist future. Correspondingly, the topic of youth has been quite present in research about the Soviet Union.1 A solid body of research focuses on young people in revolutionary Russia and 1 Most notably, Catriona Kelly’s monumental study about Russian childhood (Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006]).","PeriodicalId":45639,"journal":{"name":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"185 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.0007","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the Soviet Union, youth was central to official ideology and the effort to build socialism in the 1920s and 1930s: young people made up a large proportion of Soviet society, and children were seen as malleable, easily formable into socialist people; they signified the bright socialist future. Correspondingly, the topic of youth has been quite present in research about the Soviet Union.1 A solid body of research focuses on young people in revolutionary Russia and 1 Most notably, Catriona Kelly’s monumental study about Russian childhood (Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006]).
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A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.